SOLD GROUND PLAN: Early 20th C. Paper Thin Brass Surveyors/Architects Stencil early 1900s carving featuring a young Hawaiian woman

featuring a young Hawaiian woman with cards spread out in front of her)

stamped on the front

Perfectly aged paint

and with these almost wave-like patterns of decoration animating the rest of it

SOLD GROUND PLAN: Early 20th C. Paper Thin Brass Surveyors/Architects Stencil early 1900s carving featuring a young Hawaiian womanI find these old brass surveyors architects stencils so beautiful paper thin, finely made, and really shining rather like liquid gold in the light. I purchased a lot of them from a seller in England, and have broken them up into smaller thematic groups. These would have been used to annotate blueprints architectural renderings, but as a lover of found language I like them as small, evocative signs of sorts, which could be interesting in all sorts