Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor writing tools with light overall wear

with light overall wear

More juicy found color

but it is a festive one

I am fairly certain this piece dates from sometime between 1890s-1930

Color lithography on a nice wight stock

Beautiful Early-Mid 19th Century Handmade Double-sided Boxwood Scale Rule and Protractor writing tools with light overall wearIt 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