AMERICAN PRODUCE, Big, Beautiful, Iconic Feeling Antique Brass Stencil tabletop whimsy evoking a bee skep as

evoking a bee skep as much as a home for a canary--and of course I love the bird perched atop it

with chess certainly an apt metaphor for the tactics of war

I'd be inclined to keep it nearby to use for herding human companions

many many years ahead of it

6 x 4 7/8”

AMERICAN PRODUCE, Big, Beautiful, Iconic Feeling Antique Brass Stencil tabletop whimsy evoking a bee skep asI found this one in New Hampshire, near the Vermont border, hanging on a white wall with a bit of air around it and it struck me as just the most perfect thing elegant, radiant, and iconic feeling in its spare concision: AMERICAN PRODUCE. With the letters placed, and spaced, just right in relation to the hanging tab, as if arching across the face of a clock, 12 3 and 6 9. And of course these two words, singularly and together, open up a whole world of