Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure pearlware cup as with old samplers

as with old samplers

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

I take the carvings to represent a thistle

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

Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure pearlware cup as with old samplersOf 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,