Lovely Old Hardwood Drafting Triangle wool and cotten As a historical document

As a historical document

Plus that wonderful bounding stag at center

and delicate little leaflets on branching stems

The handle is elk horn

I love it just as an object (with a handy hole at the top for hanging)

Lovely Old Hardwood Drafting Triangle wool and cotten As a historical documentI find that things go in wavesthis is the second old wooden drafting triangle Ive found in as many weeks, perhaps because finding the first reminded me what satisfying things these are, so Ive had an eye out. And this is really a pretty one the wood is lovely and in great shape, with many many years of precise line drawing left in it. Lengths of the sides are: 12 1 2, 10 7 8 and 6 1 2. A couple of old black ink stains as pictured, which in this case I