Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor spanish colonial santos with the squirrel the marvelous

with the squirrel the marvelous focal point

with a path between them leading through a mountainous landscape

which could easily be cleaned off

I'm always on the hunt for interesting whimsies carved from one piece of wood

Poirer's work often included riddles and rebuses

Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor spanish colonial santos with the squirrel the marvelousIt 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