Saturday, August 2, 2014

Plumb bob


This lovely old tool was in a box of junk I got for a buck at a yard sale. The plumb bob itself is brass with a steel tip.  No maker's mark. The steel part on the right was attached to it, but I don't think that was original. It looks to me like a roller-skate key. Remember those (and the mildly suggestive song that folk artist Melanie wrote about them)?

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