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Ruler

Made of one cane of different coloured glasses, cut lengthways to be octagonal in section, and smoothed and polished at each end. The centre is of a wide spiral of eight threads of opaque white glass twisting round a ribbon of opaque white with green threads applied on one side and red on the other.
Size: Height 26 cm; Diameter 1.6 cm.
G.78

Place: Venice

Object Type: rule

Actual Date: c. 1867

Century: 19th century

Material: Glass

Museum Accession Number: Founders/G.78