Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure bird targets in excellent shape and framed

in excellent shape and framed in a terrific old grain painted solid wood frame

the lid is in very good antique condition with just very minor losses

This batch includes one Bennington

or as a paperweight (it's solid and heavy) or hang it somewhere and set it swinging from time to time

as I have them photographed them here

Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure bird targets in excellent shape and framedOf 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,