Antique Wood and Brass Travelers Wheel in Original Green Paint art deco penguin and all the more striking

and all the more striking in person

It appears that three of the four bullet casing legs have stoppers on the bottom but one does not

This box is in excellent shape inside and out

but I’m developing quite a fondness of small seascape watercolors

Antique Wood and Brass Travelers Wheel in Original Green Paint art deco penguin and all the more strikingClearly I love an old handmade tool, made by a specific person for a specific purpose, and this a very satisfying one a travelers wheel constructed of carved wood, in its original dark green paint, with a heavy hand wrought brass wheel. Travelers were made and used by blacksmiths and barrel makers and wheelwrights to measure circumference this one travels about 8 inches with one roll around the wheel. It appears be notched on one spot, and perhaps