Antique SECONDS Stencil frank mann bowl Stamped MB on the bottom

Stamped MB on the bottom

New York and it is definitely quite an old one

and took out of the frame with in order to get around the glare while photographing it

and the bottom of which slides off to reveal three nested brass shot glasses plus a funnel inside

Antique SECONDS Stencil frank mann bowl Stamped MB on the bottomThis may be my favorite thing I've found of late, which I perceive at least in part as a sort of "art without intent" object due to the absence of a divider on the "D", which has the effect of announcing it not as a perfect thing, but rather as a flawed one, a "second." As a lover of found language that resonates in different contexts, I also love it for all the other things that "seconds" might connote too seconds of time, second in line, second