FIRE CHIEF, Unusual and Excellent Old Brass Stencil with Aptly Black Patina erotic portrait with hand-painted lustre glaze around

with hand-painted lustre glaze around the lip

so it also seems perhaps just a whimsy

perhaps to rub occasionally for good luck

and two others listed today

FIRE CHIEF, Unusual and Excellent Old Brass Stencil with Aptly Black Patina erotic portrait with hand-painted lustre glaze aroundI love old brass stencils bearing evocative words and phrases and am always looking for them, good for hanging like signs and fun to situate. This one I was delighted to find this week in Manchester, NH. I have 100% never come across a stencil reading FIRE CHIEF before, and curious that hyphen, too. As these were typically used for stenciling crates, and most often apple crates, it occurred to me that perhaps Fire Chief was the name of an apple