Earliest Tremy's Notched Dressmaker's Ruler with Handwritten Last Inches, 1920s handmade valentines Three Boxes

Three Boxes

MA in 1991

Signed Mostrom

Photograph measures 9" x 7 3/4"

rich slate-gray in color with a beautiful surface

Earliest Tremy's Notched Dressmaker's Ruler with Handwritten Last Inches, 1920s handmade valentines Three BoxesI love a ruler and actually hadn't seen one of these before, used by a tailor or dressmaker for marking hemlines, but certainly useful for marking many sorts of things. The printed measurements go to 12 inches but the ruler is 15, so the former owner of this one marked in the last few inches. The reverse shows it was made by Tremy's, patent pending at the time this one was produced; I've found a later version showing a patent date of 1926, so this one