Antique Sailor Made Scrimshawed Ruler and Presumed Busk Fragment good luck gift Forty cards total

Forty cards total

9 7/8" long x 2 5/8" wide x 1" deep

Color is fantastic

but then those hand-stitched black whiskers are wayyy farther down

but with a repeat of the last name Buron near the top end

Antique Sailor Made Scrimshawed Ruler and Presumed Busk Fragment good luck gift Forty cards totalI'll never resist a handmade ruler, all the more so a sailor whaler made one, this one measuring seven inches. I found it along with what I believe is a fragment from a busk a common form for scrimshawing, to bring home to wives and sweethearts for use in corsets. The decoration on this one is minimal, but very fine, perhaps meant for a name to be engraved inside of it. Earlier than later 19th century New England I believe, lovely things. Ruler