DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil wood blocks And those stockings

And those stockings

Plenty of stains to the card including from the glue used to mount it and one small black mark just above her head

I believe this clown dates to the 1940s or so

daguerreotype exhibits surface wipes and is a bit light

with six circles divided up into differently sized slices and a spinner with sides corresponding to each

DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil wood blocks And those stockingsSix months ago or so, I found the counterpoint stencil to this one GOLDEN ENGINE in the Hudson River Valley; this week I returned to the same shop and found DARK ENGINE waiting for me! As before, the dealer noted that this had come from a prominent area collection, from which I guess they are doling out one stencil at a time. Before I imagined that Golden Engine had been used to stencil the hood or maybe the sides of a race car many years ago, and