Antique Brass KING Apple Stencil, H.L McPherson, Boston cased photo The paper has a little

The paper has a little bit of a sheen

and I'd like to think the painting was done on wood from a fallen tree removed from these very banks

with a couple of tiny hairline cracks that don't go all the way through and some dryness to the wood

with the same again for the water below

filling me with total joy

Antique Brass KING Apple Stencil, H.L McPherson, Boston cased photo The paper has a littleNow 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