GOLDEN ENGINE, Marvelously Evocative Old Handcut Brass Stencil antique teddy bear and the Whitney Museum of

and the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as many other collections

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An Interpretation of the Language and Sentiment of Flowers

And then hand-written on the backside: "Susan Pendleton / Given to Olive / 1906 / on a Tuesday

Whoever made it did take care to make those delineations

GOLDEN ENGINE, Marvelously Evocative Old Handcut Brass Stencil antique teddy bear and the Whitney Museum ofI have to imagine this brass stencil was made to stencil GOLDEN ENGINE across the hood or maybe the sides of a race car many years ago, with the small pointing forward triangle over the N signaling full speed ahead! Perfectly executed in upper case italics, and with quite a patina, too. I found this in the Hudson River Valley with a note from the dealer that it had come from a prominent collection, but they didn't say whose. To my eye just about as