Satisfying Old Brass Pin Drill Gauge handwoven basket producing jewelry boxes

producing jewelry boxes

I really don't know anything about this one

more aged and worn than the others

I purchased this portrait from the son of it's original owner

This and the rest from what I understand came from a  sketchbook of drawings Malta did in the 1930s or so

Satisfying Old Brass Pin Drill Gauge handwoven basket producing jewelry boxesI believe this small brass gauge would have been used for measuring pin drill (pin vise) bits; pin drills are like miniature drills, used for precision work by machinists or jewelers, etc. This is a fairly old one, with just the center row of holes stamped: 0 10 in progression, the largest number for the smallest hole. The shape of it when I first saw it made me think of a hornbook (a small paddle of sorts, usually bearing an alphabet, used for