Monday

Getting High????

Re: Monday

Dale Lenz

It's a trio somehow.

A low high

Slower than normal today.  Need more.

Re: Monday

John Veerkamp

Looks like it can hang on a cleat. Possibly a library ladder?

Hint

Gary Smyth

Another view. Often used with one or two of the same. People who used these used to dress in white but now wear whatever they like.

Something like this used to travel with them. Available today but not often recognized what it was made for originally. Size of rule: 6 feet long and 4" wide.

Re: Hint

Frederick Nelson

From the first picture, the way the device was assembled suggested that the attitude we saw it in was not the position or attitude it was used in. Your second picture confirms this. The presence of stains or discolorations on treads of the ladder suggests this might have been used for painting or plastering in rooms with ceilings that weren't terribly high, but higher that what is common today.

The straight-edge might be for laying out crown moldings (the fancy plaster one that really were molded).

So, getting plastered, er, plastering seems to be the purpose of the device in the picture.

Fred

Under clear, blue skies in Eastern Missouri

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Gary Smyth

use I had in mind or what I was told. Related in certain respects. The rule has importance. Comes from a company that started in the 1890's but what is shown is likely 1920's.

Re: Monday answer

Gary Smyth

Frederick gets a small gold star for the reasonable deduction. I couldn�t get Dale�s answer to work but he may have been first.

Today�s trivia has to do with hanging wallpaper. The ladder tables were set up and covered to lay out the paper for pasting, booking, and hanging. The rule is a wallpaperer�s rule. Six feet long with markings every quarter inch. It has a metal plate on one side to define an edge and the opposite has a channel in which a fitted rolling knife to cut paper in one long stroke. The one in the picture is 1910 vintage. This was several decades before Olfa marketed handled rolling blades to cut fabric. Because the trades could have been present in the same house at the same time the ladder tables could also have been used by painters and plasterers too.

Noticed....

Dale Lenz

the "ladder was in 3 pieces, but could not visualize what it did. Fred wins fair and square. Good trivia for today, thanks!