Beth's Ruler Collection

Biden-Harris Inauguration rainbows

Ruler template: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada

Two days out: the third of four inauguration ruler designs

Ruler template: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada

More inauguration rulers

Second of four backgrounds used this year.

Ruler template: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada

Counting the days until Jan. 20

This year I made inauguration rulers with four different backgrounds, each background with one to five different ruler designs. Starting with the background that has only one design; I promise they'll get more interesting as the next few days progress.

Ruler template: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada

Vote for the One Who Has Ability -- Integrity and Discretion

Odd punctuation in this campaign slogan for John R. Manta, from a prominent Provincetown family, who served as a Selectman and as Clerk of the 2d District Barnstable Court in the 1920s and 1930s. Campaign rulers make up a small portion of my ruler collection; many of them use this "make it a rule to..." language.

I've been trying hard to get the Biden-Harris Inauguration team to produce a ruler for this upcoming event, but I think they have other things on their minds. I told them I'd buy 20 if they added them to their online store!

Purchase (ebay) - "dig4bottles" = Alan Hight, Wellfleet, MA - received 7 January 2021

New Year's Ruler

I found these leaves on the sidewalk on Story Street, Cambridge, next to the post office, a few weeks ago. The whole street was filled with beautifully-colored leaves, and it gave me hope that things would be better this year.

Wishing all of you the very best.

Ruler template: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada

Happy New Year from Uncle Danny

"Uncle Danny" in quotes, that is.

This 6-inch metal ruler joined my ruler collection in December, 1992, as a gift from my friend and former work colleague, Susan Babbitt. Susan is an expert ruler finder, and was the very first recipient of a Deputy Ruler Collector badge. Which I'm sure she wears with pride.

In a website dedicated to New Jersey's Present and Past, you can read about Mays Landing and its famous (former?) nudist beach, Sunshine Park:

MAYS LANDING, 17.5 m. (20 alt., 2,868 pop.), is the seat of Atlantic County. It is also the national capital of the nudists, who in 1937 designated the community as their headquarters. Along the bank of Great Egg Harbor River, 2 miles south of the village, a 500-acre tract known as SUNSHINE PARK has been developed by this sun-loving cult. The park provides freedom, a reasonable degree of isolation, and plenty of mosquitoes and greenhead flies. Reporters for tabloid newspapers beat a path to the park entrance each summer when the national convention of nudists is held, but the cult's requirement that visitors disrobe is an obstacle to complete coverage of nudist news. Local residents interested in the nudist movement but as yet unwilling to affiliate make observations from row-boats in Great Egg Harbor River. Mays Landing was founded in 1760 by George May, a Philadelphian, who exchanged local bog iron and timber for salt, rice, and indigo from the Carolinas. A cotton mill is the only industrial plant in the town.

And before you ask why anyone would need a 6-inch metal ruler at a nudist beach, let me just say that this ruler makes me smile every time I think about it. THANK YOU, Susan.

Have a look:

Gift - Susan M. Babbitt -- received 14 December 1992

 

 

 

Good goods

Once again, my friend Peter L. Masi, bookseller in Montague, MA, and my husband, Tom, have conspired to make this Christmas a fine time for new (old) paper ruler acquisitions. Here's a sample from this year's batch: a trade card/ruler from A. McNeill, The Grocer, at 605 Girard Avenue in Philadelphia. I love the words A. McNeill uses to describe the store's goods: "Fine teas, coffees, and the purest spices." Their motto (see the back of the card): "Good goods and low prices."

At various times, Peter, Tom, and I all worked at the same place in Philadelphia (Library of the American Philosophical Society). Tom and I did overlap for a few years, and have stayed overlapped for 36 years now.

It's all connected.

Gift - Thomas A. Horrocks, through Peter L. Masi - received 25 December 2020

 

Christmas 2020, part 2

More rulers, printed on the third and fourth of the four different background designs I used this year to help make the holidays measure up.

As always, many thanks to the talented etsy artist Jessica Laurie, whose ruler templates have made all my home-made rulers possible.

Ruler templates: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada

 

Christmas 2020

I meant to start this series of four different Christmas/New Years rulers for 2020 on Tuesday, so I could post each one on a different day. Too busy; too distracted. So you get two today on Christmas Eve, and two tomorrow on Christmas Day.

Sending my very best wishes for a happy holiday and a great new year.

Ruler templates: Purchase (etsy) - Jessica Laurie, JLaurieStudio, Henderson, Nevada