Beautiful Old Heavy Brass Drafting / Carpenter's Triangle elegant bowl A lovely chip-carved wooden frame

A lovely chip-carved wooden frame with a great shape to it--I especially love those rounded bottom corners looking like suns or wheels--and with glass still in it

"KEEP" circled many times in red

Light wear around the edges but really in terrific condition

held together with these gorgeous

Punch and Judy has roots in 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte

Beautiful Old Heavy Brass Drafting / Carpenter's Triangle elegant bowl A lovely chip-carved wooden frameSo many beautiful tools in the world! (And I'm in the dark about how to use most of them!) I would guess this old brass triangle was used by a carpenter, or a framer (?), through would certainly look very lovely now sitting atop a pile of papers on a drafting table, or a studio table now. I especially love the the raised rectangle near the 30 degree angle, which would allow one to rest a ruler against it to draw a straight line in the opposite