Unusual and Beautiful Old Handmade Ruler (?) antique diagams with triangular nose and a

with triangular nose and a wide smile

which I take for a planter

presence and absence--and that little puppy is pretty great

should one wish to animate it but situating a figure or two inside

To very pretty effect

Unusual and Beautiful Old Handmade Ruler (?) antique diagams with triangular nose and aI really don't know anything about this one, but found it at Brimfield and couldn't put it down. I presume a ruler or guide of some sort, with the increments along one side approximately one inch and the shorter ones about half an inch. For me the angled lines really make it. lending a sense of movement and three dimensionality to the whole thing, and the wood, which I think may be boxwood, is lovely. With what looks to be some faint handwritten text