Folky (and Suggestive) Brass Masonic Square and Compass Ornament antique engraving two sides black on red

two sides black on red letters and numbers

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

even better

I've always got an eye out for old photographs made more interesting and evocative via the effects of time and think this tintype is definitely one of those

Folky (and Suggestive) Brass Masonic Square and Compass Ornament antique engraving two sides black on redMade 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