(Dreaming of a) PONY - Iconic Feeling, Perfect Little Antique Golden Brass Stencil Chinese horse Postmarked 1908

Postmarked 1908

7 1/8" x  10 1/8"

almost like very thinly sliced bone but they are smaller and lighter in weight than bone gaming chips

it's just that the the vertical edges of the photo inside are poking through just a hair

Thayer is a well-known name in these parts

(Dreaming of a) PONY - Iconic Feeling, Perfect Little Antique Golden Brass Stencil Chinese horse Postmarked 1908An excellent little golden PONY stencil like the purest distillation of a certain sort of dreamy longing for an out of reach object of desire. With the PONY framed by thus recessed oval which has the effect of making it feel more like a sign than a stencil and with the brass wrapped around a lead backing lending it some extra weight and objecthood. I didn't think too much about this when I grabbed it, but it's become perhaps my favorite find of the