KNITTING MACHINERY, Unusual and Excellent c. 1900 29 Inch Interestingly Patinated Brass Stencil naive apple painting super smooth from age and

super smooth from age and wear

though looking almost as if drawn with black ink

An iconic feeling snapshot of an iconic feeling late 1930s/early 1940s "Arizona Welcomes You" sign

an artist who I believe worked and taught in  North Carolina

with what I believe are actual stones along the shoreline

KNITTING MACHINERY, Unusual and Excellent c. 1900 29 Inch Interestingly Patinated Brass Stencil naive apple painting super smooth from age andYou 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