A Large Early 20thC WF Stanley Telescopic Oak & Brass Surveyors Measuring Rod sub-Curios would have flown from a

would have flown from a medium sized ship

There is a loop at one end of the cover

and enamel

a spiky chap but as soft as a brush and as hollow as the murmur of the midnight sea

A Large Early 20thC WF Stanley Telescopic Oak & Brass Surveyors Measuring Rod sub-Curios would have flown from aOrigin: English Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1910 25 Length: 14 feet extended 6. 25 feet unextended Width: 3 inches Depth: 2 inches The oak and brass three tier telescopic measuring device with paper graphic ladder scale, by WF Stanley extends to fourteen feet and survives from the first quarter of the twentieth century. The condition is fair to good with the applied paper is dirty but largely in tact and free from