Beautiful Treen Ruler with Inlaid Brass Pins yellow Lagardo Tackett Schmid demitasse cups 3 7/8" t x 1

3 7/8" t x 1 5/8" in diameter

including a bit of paint loss along the top right edge where a second word is written in large pencil letters and a little roughness at lower right—but to me that doesn't matter a bit

though I have seen it on a few other masks of this type and find the effect very beautiful

he's about the best creature I've seen

and overall general wear

Beautiful Treen Ruler with Inlaid Brass Pins yellow Lagardo Tackett Schmid demitasse cups 3 7/8" t x 1The first thing this lovely ruler made me think of was antique treen snuff boxes finely decorated with tiny brass nails, and this feels very much of that ilk as well as reminding me of Victorian pin cushions with phrases spelled out in stick pins that I am forever coveting! I believe it is likely British, I think the wood is rosewood, and the nails were individually inlaidwith the added benefit being that one can feel the numbers with the tips of the