KNITTING MACHINERY, Unusual and Excellent c. 1900 29 Inch Interestingly Patinated Brass Stencil soldered tin cup HJG and HJP

HJG and HJP

paint is not actively chipping off

Undressed paper doll measures 3 3/4" t

better to gobble up the bounty before it

and it is actually Jasper Johns’ flag paintings that this keeps making me thinking of

KNITTING MACHINERY, Unusual and Excellent c. 1900 29 Inch Interestingly Patinated Brass Stencil soldered tin cup HJG and HJPYou know I love old brass stencils as objects and as found language, and what an unusual and unusually long! one this KNITTING MACHINERY stencil is. C. 1900 I believe, when commercial knitting made by knitting machines would have primarily been used for knitting underwear, socks and hosiery. (This "machine knitting" vastly expanded as the public taste for knitted fashion exploded in late 1910s early 1920s.) So an interesting piece of textile history