Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure tin train platform with chainlink fence in the

with chainlink fence in the background overgrown with vines and trees to either side

all fairly minor

I don’t know anything about this carving

but I think it would really fun to host a party and serve daisy-shaped ice cream treats

This old wooden chalkline tool just struck me as really beautiful

Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure tin train platform with chainlink fence in theOf 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,