Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor speculaas springerle print based one some paint loss

based one some paint loss on the feet of the figure and overall patina

found together in my neck of the woods

I found a stone carved figure in Maine clearly made by the same person as this one

Totally useable still for finding a plumb-line

” It looks as though the facial features were once embroidered on then ripped out years later

Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor speculaas springerle print based one some paint lossIt would take someone much more knowledgable than I to explain all that it rolled into this early mid 19th century protractor rule, but I've looked at and held enough to know that it is a special one, and an early one, and really a beauty. With diagonal scales at either end of one side, and a dense array of scales on the reverse, with "Cho" (Chords), "Rum", and "Lon" (for Longitude I believe) marked at either end. I believe the various scales featured