FIRE CHIEF, Unusual and Excellent Old Brass Stencil with Aptly Black Patina tintyoy and a really a cool

and a really a cool object

4 1/2" deep

That's what I see

(Details give a good sense of both color and surface

FIRE CHIEF, Unusual and Excellent Old Brass Stencil with Aptly Black Patina tintyoy and a really a coolI 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