Beautiful Treen Ruler with Inlaid Brass Pins yellow Lagardo Tackett Schmid demitasse cups of which this one is

of which this one is emblematic

with the only visible flaw being a tiny chip at the very tip of the peak of one of the dark cranes

with the red painted numbers popping against the much aged white

he's about the best creature I've seen

including a bit of paint loss along the top right edge where a second word is written in large pencil letters and a little roughness at lower right—but to me that doesn't matter a bit

Beautiful Treen Ruler with Inlaid Brass Pins yellow Lagardo Tackett Schmid demitasse cups of which this one isThe first thing this lovely ruler made me think of was antique treen snuff boxes finely decorated with tiny brass nails, and this feels very much of that ilk as well as reminding me of Victorian pin cushions with phrases spelled out in stick pins that I am forever coveting! I believe it is likely British, I think the wood is rosewood, and the nails were individually inlaidwith the added benefit being that one can feel the numbers with the tips of the