Unusual and Beautiful Old Handmade Ruler (?) early speller I've got a soft spot

I've got a soft spot for antique shoe-shaped snuff boxes

but super sweet

where she studied under Mexican muralist Rufino Tamayo and the abstract expressionist Vaclav Vytlacil

the other reaching toward his mother

though both are slightly off center and the lines seem a bit more wavering than confident

Unusual and Beautiful Old Handmade Ruler (?) early speller I've got a soft spotI really don't know anything about this one, but found it at Brimfield and couldn't put it down. I presume a ruler or guide of some sort, with the increments along one side approximately one inch and the shorter ones about half an inch. For me the angled lines really make it. lending a sense of movement and three dimensionality to the whole thing, and the wood, which I think may be boxwood, is lovely. With what looks to be some faint handwritten text