SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine I am goodlow I find these very tender

I find these very tender things--and the perfect thing to share with a young person who thinks life is hard: day after day of mopping

I love the square grid organization

it would be the perfect thing to have sitting on the counter when trying to sell a house--and that is what I thought of as soon as I saw this bowl

which shows a few chips but I'd leave it just as it is

it appears the silk was stretched taut over board and backed with paper

SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine I am goodlow I find these very tenderA very homemade old tool, and beautifully so. An old tag from the now deceased dealer I purchased this from described it as an antique mast scorer from Maine. And indeed, the iron spikes extending at regular intervals from the rotating wooden wheels at either end are quite sharp enough to leave their mark. From what I understand, this would have been using for marking the mast s of a sailboat to indicate specific sail positions or settings for optimal