Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding folk art nude with some light staining at

with some light staining at the bottom corners

amplifying its great sense of presence

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

and old tack holes around the perimeter

pointing to Warren

Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding folk art nude with some light staining atYou 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