FIRE CHIEF, Unusual and Excellent Old Brass Stencil with Aptly Black Patina erotic portrait and impact of this in

and impact of this in new ways

so it also seems perhaps just a whimsy

my favorites of which I am listing individually

and two others listed today

perhaps to rub occasionally for good luck

FIRE CHIEF, Unusual and Excellent Old Brass Stencil with Aptly Black Patina erotic portrait and impact of this inI love old brass stencils bearing evocative words and phrases and am always looking for them, good for hanging like signs and fun to situate. This one I was delighted to find this week in Manchester, NH. I have 100% never come across a stencil reading FIRE CHIEF before, and curious that hyphen, too. As these were typically used for stenciling crates, and most often apple crates, it occurred to me that perhaps Fire Chief was the name of an apple