Lovely Antique Brass 6 Inch Folding Ruler hand-painted porclain and then 10 different spools

and then 10 different spools of thread around the perimeter

I'd be willing to bet they were wall mounted on the wall as rays of sun emanating from a large all seeing eye

This is a luscious vintage 1976 gouache and pencil on board rendering of a Rockwell Sabeliner 75A corporate jet

This is a an old Japanase merchant ledger book that I believe would be known as a daifuku-cho

but that has not happened

Lovely Antique Brass 6 Inch Folding Ruler hand-painted porclain and then 10 different spoolsThe tinier the ruler the better as far as I'm concerned all the better for measuring little things! I've had a couple of 6 inch folding rulers made of bone, but don't believe I've ever coming across a brass one, and this one feels quite special. No mark anywhere on it that I can see, and with just the 1st and last inch divided into quarters, the rest just into halves. 19th c. I believe, and I imagine made for a very specific purpose, perhaps for an