DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil wood blocks daguerreotype exhibits surface wipes and

daguerreotype exhibits surface wipes and is a bit light

It feels rather like a modernist's take on the kitschy charm necklace/bracelet

And those stockings

Plenty of stains to the card including from the glue used to mount it and one small black mark just above her head

A stern school mistress she seems to be

DARK ENGINE, Very Excellent Old Handcut Brass Stencil wood blocks daguerreotype exhibits surface wipes andSix 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