Antique Brass KING Apple Stencil, H.L McPherson, Boston cased photo filling me with total joy

filling me with total joy

Approx 8 1/2" in diameter and in very good condition

or made by a fish monger (my guess) or to hang in a cobbler's shop

with the same again for the water below

Antique Brass KING Apple Stencil, H.L McPherson, Boston cased photo filling me with total joyNow and again I come across old stencils cut for painting apple barrels or crates, but I believe this is the first KING I've seen, and as a lover of found language, how to resist? A gift fit for a king, I'd say and good in all sorts of contexts. (The King apple, red with yellow stripes and also known as the Tompkins King, was long thought to have originated at Jacksonville in Tompkins County, NY, but later that tree was discovered to have been