Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding Mary Scheier and track sales and purchases

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I love the various framing devices that position the woman—who

with the numbering on the exterior fairly faded but very bright and clear on the inside

I really could not love this girl or woman more

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Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding Mary Scheier and track sales and purchasesYou know I love measuring tools of all sorts, and this I think is really a cool, and also a really beautiful one, another of which I can't find out there anywhere. (Plus I just love the word fathom, in all its connotations.) Dated 1907, it was produced by Whyte Thomson Co, based on Sir William Thomson's patent Thomson, aka Baron Kelvin of Largs, being the very important Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist. (More on him below.) A fathoms