Folky (and Suggestive) Brass Masonic Square and Compass Ornament antique engraving and still works

and still works

and there is a bit of mildewing

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

large wooden knobs

Folky (and Suggestive) Brass Masonic Square and Compass Ornament antique engraving and still worksMade 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