Antique Brass KING Apple Stencil, H.L McPherson, Boston metal inlay dominoes and then they collapse flat

and then they collapse flat to store when not needed

The cover is in good shape and all pages--thick laid paper--remain tightly bound

on both top and bottom of one side--as if the first

or as a paperweight (it's solid and heavy) or hang it somewhere and set it swinging from time to time

which I found in Adams County

Antique Brass KING Apple Stencil, H.L McPherson, Boston metal inlay dominoes and then they collapse flatNow and again I come across old stencils cut for painting apple barrels or crates, but I believe this is the first KING I've seen, and as a lover of found language, how to resist? A gift fit for a king, I'd say and good in all sorts of contexts. (The King apple, red with yellow stripes and also known as the Tompkins King, was long thought to have originated at Jacksonville in Tompkins County, NY, but later that tree was discovered to have been