1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols sea creatures for the box alone

for the box alone

with lovely bouquet and pretty gold border

and how much better to measure little things with one of these than with a clunky measuring tape

5% voted in favor of the measure)

the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands

1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols sea creatures for the box aloneThis fabulous thing, hand etched with an jam packed array of Freemasonry symbols, would once have been part of the scabbard or sheath for a ceremonial sword, with the rings allowing it to be hung proudly on the wall in between ritual wieldings:) I don't have much of an interest in swords, but I am sure glad someone salvaged this piece, which now I'd hang from those two rings just as it is. The metal piece itself was produced by the Ames Manufacturing