Antique Cloth Measuring Tape in Lovely Tin Litho Case with Winder antique charcoal drawing and a note about the

and a note about the drawing: "watermarked / Meeteer

but have it on fairly good authority that these likely date to the 1880s or so

with some doodles on the back of that

I love a resonant merger of medium and message

This one I believe dates to WW1 or so

Antique Cloth Measuring Tape in Lovely Tin Litho Case with Winder antique charcoal drawing and a note about theJust lovely. Early 20th c. I believe, a cloth measure housed inside tin litho case, with metal pull at the end of the measuring tape and smoothly turning arm that winds it tightly back inside. I don't come across these very often, especially not as graphically excellent as this one, which feels like a cousin of a Schoenhut circus drum! 1 15 16" d x 1 1 4". I pulled it out a little further than 40 inches and it seems it likely goes a to 48 or so. Some