Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure bird targets but have it on fairly

but have it on fairly good authority that these likely date to the 1880s or so

or as a paperweight (it's solid and heavy) or hang it somewhere and set it swinging from time to time

perhaps a signature

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as I have them photographed them here

Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure bird targets but have it on fairlyOf 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,