Beautiful Old Heavy Brass Drafting / Carpenter's Triangle elegant bowl Punch and Judy has roots

Punch and Judy has roots in 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte

Tiles measure 3 3/4' X 1 7/8" X 3/16" each

Writing in the upper right corner of first inside page

held together with these gorgeous

and the old man shows fairly green from the back

Beautiful Old Heavy Brass Drafting / Carpenter's Triangle elegant bowl Punch and Judy has rootsSo many beautiful tools in the world! (And I'm in the dark about how to use most of them!) I would guess this old brass triangle was used by a carpenter, or a framer (?), through would certainly look very lovely now sitting atop a pile of papers on a drafting table, or a studio table now. I especially love the the raised rectangle near the 30 degree angle, which would allow one to rest a ruler against it to draw a straight line in the opposite