Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure pearlware cup My guess is that it

My guess is that it was used to print directly on the wall in a home though perhaps to make wall paper--whatever the case it would have required some strength and determination to use

I found this one in Kansas City and take her for a saint

I take the carvings to represent a thistle

the other a painted yellow ring

with some spotting to the front of the right leg and some scratching and old sticker mark on the reverse

Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure pearlware cup My guess is that itOf course found in Maine, and I know pulled out of an old boat builder's shop in Ellsworth, near Bar Harbor. I know little about the art of boat building, but sure do love a handmade tool, and clearly this was used for marking angles, I presume in a similar way to a bevel gauge. I love it as an object, with to my eye great beauty to all those graphite drawn lines, and I especially love the the knot in the wood on the left edge toward the bottom,