Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding folk art housefly art architecture making getting a fire going

making getting a fire going feel much more of an accomplishment

the stoneware vessel itself feels Japanese

4 7/8" t x 2 1/4" w x 1 1/16"

with a hand embroidered face and cotton yarn (dyed in variegated shades of browns) for her wonderful head of hair

but the handwritten note acknowledging that inclusion make me think it was done not long after

Rare 1907 Whyte Thomson Co, Glasgow Fathoms Scale for Sea Depth Sounding folk art housefly art architecture making getting a fire goingYou 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