Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil throw blanket Our man on the left

Our man on the left

I'd use them as fun little bud vases

especially over entrances

11 1/2" t x 6 1/8" w x 4" d and in very good condition

Painting 5 1/2" x 4"

Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil throw blanket Our man on the leftI clearly have a weakness for antique stencils bearing texts that make them interesting as signs of sorts now, and this is a great example. I presume it was made for painting signage on the lids of barrels, but am not sure what contents would specifically require storing one end up and opening from the other? I love that one can't look at it without imagining the object it implies, and especially the symbol at dead center, looking like an eye watching