Chicks and Fowls XXXX, Antique Brass Stencils - A Pair folk art carved swan holding onto his green saw

holding onto his green saw still

on the cusp of coming into himself

embroidered with what look like mushrooms or umbrellas or arrows down the side

or perhaps a High School (HS)

as if toward a rolling ball coming in from the side

Chicks and Fowls XXXX, Antique Brass Stencils - A Pair folk art carved swan holding onto his green sawThese seem pretty Valentine y to me with their XXXX's, and I also thought they would make great signs for his and her bathrooms, say! (Of course I'm all for gender neutral ones.) All sorts of contexts, really, in which these would be good, so I'm listing as a pair. More evident in hand than in photos, too, is that the positive spaces between the cutout X's look, by chance, a little like chickens or turkey, heads down tails up, nibbling away at the