1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols sea creatures 15 3/4" x 12 7/16"

15 3/4" x 12 7/16"

with just a tiny loss of paint in a couple of spots

the largest of Spain’s Canary Islands

and would look great hung or draped somewhere

and how much better to measure little things with one of these than with a clunky measuring tape

1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols sea creatures 15 3/4" x 12 7/16"This fabulous thing, hand etched with an jam packed array of Freemasonry symbols, would once have been part of the scabbard or sheath for a ceremonial sword, with the rings allowing it to be hung proudly on the wall in between ritual wieldings:) I don't have much of an interest in swords, but I am sure glad someone salvaged this piece, which now I'd hang from those two rings just as it is. The metal piece itself was produced by the Ames Manufacturing