Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure bird targets in excellent shape and framed

in excellent shape and framed in a terrific old grain painted solid wood frame

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perhaps a signature

but have it on fairly good authority that these likely date to the 1880s or so

This batch includes one Bennington

Downeast Maine Boat Builders Antique Handmade Angle Measure bird targets in excellent shape and framedOf course found in Maine, and I know pulled out of an old boat builder's shop in Ellsworth, near Bar Harbor. I know little about the art of boat building, but sure do love a handmade tool, and clearly this was used for marking angles, I presume in a similar way to a bevel gauge. I love it as an object, with to my eye great beauty to all those graphite drawn lines, and I especially love the the knot in the wood on the left edge toward the bottom,