Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil dials 11"x14" and in excellent condition

11"x14" and in excellent condition

Clearly once framed

and is nothing more than a round glob of lead at the end of a tin strip

) This is a limited edition piece from 1988

which I am sure are Victorian era

Store with This End Up, Antique Brass Barrel Stencil dials 11"x14" and in excellent conditionI 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