Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding folk art nude and old tack holes around

and old tack holes around the perimeter

with what looks to me to be "The Bear" written at top left then crossed out

amplifying its great sense of presence

with some light staining at the bottom corners

There are a couple of small holes in the wood on the top

Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding folk art nude and old tack holes aroundYou know I love measuring tools of all sorts, and this I think is really a cool, and also a really beautiful one, another of which I can't find out there anywhere. (Plus I just love the word fathom, in all its connotations.) Dated 1907, it was produced by Whyte Thomson Co, based on Sir William Thomson's patent Thomson, aka Baron Kelvin of Largs, being the very important Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist. (More on him below.) A fathoms