SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine bejeweled they are in excellent shape

they are in excellent shape

and a little wood left unpainted at the center of his eyes to perfect effect

and perhaps once previously framed as well

this is just about the most beautiful decoy I've ever seen

and think perhaps they were siblings

SOLD Wonderful Old Homemade Mast Scoring Tool from Maine bejeweled they are in excellent shapeA very homemade old tool, and beautifully so. An old tag from the now deceased dealer I purchased this from described it as an antique mast scorer from Maine. And indeed, the iron spikes extending at regular intervals from the rotating wooden wheels at either end are quite sharp enough to leave their mark. From what I understand, this would have been using for marking the mast s of a sailboat to indicate specific sail positions or settings for optimal