Unusual, Very Precise Hand-stamped Nickel T-Shaped Surface Level handblown hourglass 1840s and in very good

1840s and in very good condition

I really love the tiered form of it

Spare and lovely

wonderfully enhanced with tiny green leaves here and there

Later 20th c

Unusual, Very Precise Hand-stamped Nickel T-Shaped Surface Level handblown hourglass 1840s and in very goodI really don't know the precise function of this one, and neither did the dealer I purchased it from, who used to specialize in old tools! It is clearly a leveling tool, with three legs, so meant to rest on a surface, and the two levels are very very precise, so it was made with exact leveling in mind. (Good for leveling a tabletop for sure.) I like it as an object, and for the impressed type (K & H no less my initials), and LEVEL spelled out at on