Antique Wood and Brass Travelers Wheel in Original Green Paint vintage Red Cross pins and casting such great shadows

and casting such great shadows

and some age toning and small stains around the edges

painted with the face of Christ on the toe

From a second batch of drawings by Chicago artist James Frederic Bone (1929-2015)

copyright 1936

Antique Wood and Brass Travelers Wheel in Original Green Paint vintage Red Cross pins and casting such great shadowsClearly I love an old handmade tool, made by a specific person for a specific purpose, and this a very satisfying one a travelers wheel constructed of carved wood, in its original dark green paint, with a heavy hand wrought brass wheel. Travelers were made and used by blacksmiths and barrel makers and wheelwrights to measure circumference this one travels about 8 inches with one roll around the wheel. It appears be notched on one spot, and perhaps