Old Marble (Faux) Specimen Ruler with Hand-carved Numbers kitties who made everything from desk

who made everything from desk and smoking accessories to corkscrews to bookends to pretzel holders to candlesticks

miniature really

I have not been able to find out for sure when or where the tradition of using oil cloth for dolls began

complete with pencil-drawn outlines on the uncarved end

pretty classic

Old Marble (Faux) Specimen Ruler with Hand-carved Numbers kitties who made everything from deskA little searching turns up that Italian marble pietra dura "specimen" rulers were a thing, popular in the late 1800s as Grand Tour souvenirs. This, however, is not that it appears to be to be all one piece of marble, with carved lines to delineate inches and the variations in color done with some sort of dye. I tend to like aspirational things imitating other things, but what I especially like about this one, which makes it quite singular, is that