Wonderful Old Brass Ruler with Hand-Engraved Numbers colorful face but I've got a weakness

but I've got a weakness from little drawing on envelopes

with some loss of the bright yellow nailed-on trim around the lower sides

and which makes a tremendously satisfying spooling sound when the handle is turned) would be threaded through the hook at the tip of the arrow and then dropped through a hole drilled in the ice

Good now as a paperweight or to add to the collection of carved or cast arms and legs and feet

to the jauntily cocked handle

Wonderful Old Brass Ruler with Hand-Engraved Numbers colorful face but I've got a weaknessSuch a treat to find this wonderful old brass ruler yesterday in New Hampshire, with the numbers engraved by hand, perfectly imperfect. The ruler is divided into eights, with one circle at the inch marks, and three at the half inch. I asked a keen and knowledgeable friend about it, who believes it is machinist's rulerthey would often make their own measuring tools (like ladies legs calipers!) so that they could be customized for the specific device