Pioneer WATER, Resonant and Perfectly Patinated Old Cast Iron Street Water Valve Cover trench art matchbook cover With some quick research I've

With some quick research I've learned that Winder Hospital  in Richmond

very sound and sturdy and tightly stuffed with no holes

One very last one from a number of drawings I've list by the same (surely quite young) maker

too) were carved from broom handles

Pioneer WATER, Resonant and Perfectly Patinated Old Cast Iron Street Water Valve Cover trench art matchbook cover With some quick research I'veYou know I love found language (and what a resonant phrase here), and sometimes a great old cast iron object too. And I find the the graphic punch and clarity of the lettering on this just completely satisfying. This would have functioned as a street water valve access cover for a municipal water system, I believe. I found it in mid coast Maine and have since found one other example out there of this particular Pioneer Water cover, but in nothing like