Unusual and Beautiful Old Handmade Ruler (?) antique diagams Not a great painting

Not a great painting

I love everything I sell

with triangular nose and a wide smile

spruce gum boxes

should one wish to animate it but situating a figure or two inside

Unusual and Beautiful Old Handmade Ruler (?) antique diagams Not a great paintingI really don't know anything about this one, but found it at Brimfield and couldn't put it down. I presume a ruler or guide of some sort, with the increments along one side approximately one inch and the shorter ones about half an inch. For me the angled lines really make it. lending a sense of movement and three dimensionality to the whole thing, and the wood, which I think may be boxwood, is lovely. With what looks to be some faint handwritten text