Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor speculaas springerle print Totally useable still for finding

Totally useable still for finding a plumb-line

Structurally all very sound and not at all fragile

based one some paint loss on the feet of the figure and overall patina

he is actually gazing up at her face while resting his cheek on her breast

and then there is this great little face

Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor speculaas springerle print Totally useable still for findingIt would take someone much more knowledgable than I to explain all that it rolled into this early mid 19th century protractor rule, but I've looked at and held enough to know that it is a special one, and an early one, and really a beauty. With diagonal scales at either end of one side, and a dense array of scales on the reverse, with "Cho" (Chords), "Rum", and "Lon" (for Longitude I believe) marked at either end. I believe the various scales featured