Lovely Old Wooden T-Square with Mirror Writing green but I think it is

but I think it is all to the good in making for the perfect contrast with the still super bright and thick yellow paint on the beak

with amounts due for services including taking in wheat

and I must say when I first saw this one I thought for a moment that it was an actual pressed violet from an herbarium

someone was wise to salvage them

18 3/8" l x 1 3/4" wide and deep

Lovely Old Wooden T-Square with Mirror Writing green but I think it isIt really did take me a mirror to decipher the backwards writing on this old wooden t square, which I believe reads: "This is a true saying and worthy of all men." I believe this phrase refers to the pastoral epithets in the New Testament, which include "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief." I am not entirely certain its meaning on this t square, though