1873 Ladies Legs 4 Inch Folk Art Calipers 1904 postcard and a perfect English-American hybrid

and a perfect English-American hybrid

toughness and density

which were exercises taught to young school girls (in kindergarten

and perhaps sketched on site while visiting a New York museum

which I also think is pretty genius: of course one wants to see inside a piggy bank to watch one's nickels and dimes accumulating

1873 Ladies Legs 4 Inch Folk Art Calipers 1904 postcard and a perfect English-American hybridI had these listed as part of a set of four 19th century ladies legs calipers I purchased together, but perhaps no one needs a collection of four, so I've decided to list them individually. Made of steel, likely by a metalworker or machinist for their own use, these are the largest, 4 inches, and the one set stamped by their maker with the year of their making, 1873. I particularly like them opened all the way out and around again so that the knees