DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil painted cubes and the black and brown

and the black and brown border around the lid

but the ends are flush and square

I've only found a couple of example of full scale carved stone keystones of a related ilk to this one

which looks to me to be splitting a piece of wood

DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil painted cubes and the black and brownSix months ago or so, I found the counterpoint stencil to this one GOLDEN ENGINE in the Hudson River Valley; this week I returned to the same shop and found DARK ENGINE waiting for me! As before, the dealer noted that this had come from a prominent area collection, from which I guess they are doling out one stencil at a time. Before I imagined that Golden Engine had been used to stencil the hood or maybe the sides of a race car many years ago, and