Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor speculaas springerle print found together in my neck

found together in my neck of the woods

Structurally all very sound and not at all fragile

I found a stone carved figure in Maine clearly made by the same person as this one

in a lovely period frame that I think suits it just right

to the birds atop trees to the waving girl

Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor speculaas springerle print found together in my neckIt would take someone much more knowledgable than I to explain all that it rolled into this early mid 19th century protractor rule, but I've looked at and held enough to know that it is a special one, and an early one, and really a beauty. With diagonal scales at either end of one side, and a dense array of scales on the reverse, with "Cho" (Chords), "Rum", and "Lon" (for Longitude I believe) marked at either end. I believe the various scales featured