Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure pearlware cup the beautifully shaped tin of

the beautifully shaped tin of the scoop wraps around the sides of the base

with some spotting to the front of the right leg and some scratching and old sticker mark on the reverse

as with old samplers

I take the carvings to represent a thistle

Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure pearlware cup the beautifully shaped tin ofOf course found in Maine, and I know pulled out of an old boat builder's shop in Ellsworth, near Bar Harbor. I know little about the art of boat building, but sure do love a handmade tool, and clearly this was used for marking angles, I presume in a similar way to a bevel gauge. I love it as an object, with to my eye great beauty to all those graphite drawn lines, and I especially love the the knot in the wood on the left edge toward the bottom,