1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols sea creatures with just a tiny loss

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

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

with lovely bouquet and pretty gold border

is sumptuous

for the box alone

1800s Ames Mfg Co Scabbard Piece with Engraved Masonic Symbols sea creatures with just a tiny lossThis 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