Wonderful (Almost) 8 Inch Handmade Wooden Ruler antique painters palette no visible flaws

no visible flaws

10 7/8" l x 6 5/8" d x 7 3/4" tall (including chimney)

are in perfect condition and super smart looking

and these old shoe-shaped snuff boxes are such wonderful

The box measures 6

Wonderful (Almost) 8 Inch Handmade Wooden Ruler antique painters palette no visible flawsIt looks to me that this ruler was made entirely from scratch, though I suppose it's not impossible that it's a heavily made over old one. In either event, each inch has been marked with a small carved (perhaps pyrographed) triangle, cumulating as one goes, such that one could read it with one's fingers rather than one's eyes! Other details appears to be executed in graphite, including the division of each inch into eighths, an "Eagle" logo at the