Cool Old Make Do Surveyor's Tool classic design And while not so often

And while not so often the case

especially near an entrance or at the foot of a bed

most of the time the design appears as gestural abstract forms

with a clothespin glued to a piece of wood for the clip

Dating to the early 1930s I believe and produced by Napier

Cool Old Make Do Surveyor's Tool classic design And while not so oftenI don't know a think about surveyor's tools, or the process of using them, but I really like this "make do: version, with hand drawn angles and rotating head equipped with a level and a slightly bent metal wire pointer. From what I can tell Steber Mfg Co. Chicago was a company that produced light fixtures, and I believe it's just the branded metal plate that was repurposed as a mount here. The level works and the arm turns all the way around, and