Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding folk art nude then rendered under a magnifying

then rendered under a magnifying glass

though I only find them rarely—and these two

but I love the form

pointing to Warren

or easy to add a hanger or two on the back instead

Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding folk art nude then rendered under a magnifyingYou 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