Steel. Long, triangular-shaped gauge with suspension hole at top. Numbers on both sides beginning at tip. The numbers from 15 to 140 on one side measure width of gauge in 1/100ths of inches (i.e. at 100 is 1 inch wide). Scale on other side runs from 1-32. Basis of calibration unknown.
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Shaker Museum Gauge. https://shakermuseum.us/object/?id=7378.