Folky (and Suggestive) Brass Masonic Square and Compass Ornament antique engraving with a checkerboard patterned linsey-woolsey

with a checkerboard patterned linsey-woolsey weaving stretched behind her almost like an op art painting

painting there and in New England

two sides black on red letters and numbers

like the most elemental drawing in the world

Folky (and Suggestive) Brass Masonic Square and Compass Ornament antique engraving with a checkerboard patterned linsey-woolseyMade by a proud Mason who was also a metalworker machinist, I presume, this desk ornament completely won me with its folkiness especially that compass, which looks to my eye quite like a pair of ladies legs, with an oddly positioned and anatomically suggestive! rendering of the pin connecting them. Looks a bit like an all seeing eye too. Pretty fun. 4 3 8 t x 4 5 8 w x 1 9 16 d and in very good condition. Nice patina to the brass, and green felt on