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but I think they're beautiful
It is of a nice scale and in a simple antique black painted wooden frame
and then the charmer of a face poking up at the other end
but rarer to see a figural one
Antique Sailor Made Scrimshawed Ruler and Presumed Busk Fragment photo of girl holding mirror but I think they're beautifulI'll never resist a handmade ruler, all the more so a sailor whaler made one, this one measuring seven inches. I found it along with what I believe is a fragment from a busk a common form for scrimshawing, to bring home to wives and sweethearts for use in corsets. The decoration on this one is minimal, but very fine, perhaps meant for a name to be engraved inside of it. Earlier than later 19th century New England I believe, lovely things. Ruler
