Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! old wooden decoy Just a really excellent paint

Just a really excellent paint job on this old folk art Dutch girl

which makes perfect sense

sold for just "a trifle more" as noted on one side of the box

This is a Stanley model 36 1/2" -- twelve inches unfolded

with a bit of a Diane Arbus feeling about it

Excellent Old Handmade Lead Ciphering Dial! old wooden decoy Just a really excellent paintI love this thing. The wonderful dealer I purchased it from (an artist who loves curious little things like this as much as I do) thought it along the lines of a cracker jack box ciphering wheel decoder, and I think that's right, creating a correspondence between numbers and letters, which one could use for writing, or deciphering, messages written in secret code. The center dial turns, and is incised with lines, as is the outer disk. So one course,