Early 20th C. Paper Thin Brass Surveyors/Architects Stencils - Set # Three monkey on ladder toy with a couple of splits

with a couple of splits from shrinkage/expansion on the back side

and can't find very another out there online anywhere

SIgned (a bit faint now) on reverse and dated what looks to me to be Oct

There is a little loss to one far edge of the slide top box

soulful representation as poignant a depiction of being trapped--literally chained--in limbo as could be

Early 20th C. Paper Thin Brass Surveyors/Architects Stencils - Set # Three monkey on ladder toy with a couple of splitsI find these old brass surveyors architects stencils so beautiful paper thin, finely made, and shining rather like liquid gold in the light. I purchased a lot of them from a seller in England, and have broken them up into smaller thematic groups. These would have been used to annotate blueprints architectural renderings, but as a lover of found language I like them as small, evocative signs of sorts, which could be interesting in all sorts contexts.