Handmade Wooden Nautical Dial (for Teaching Sailing?) Zanesville planter holding a cache of collected

holding a cache of collected rocks or shells

representing the work of many prominent Haitian artists

it would be drawings

This is a fantastical landscape that one can get lost in

the largest "charm" is about 3 1/4" long

Handmade Wooden Nautical Dial (for Teaching Sailing?) Zanesville planter holding a cache of collectedI'm not a sailor, but I think this interesting old handmade dial would be instructive if a novice like me were to try to put it to use. The black "boat" at the center is annotated with Port and Starboard (missing the first few letters), Forward and Aft, and then depending on which direction one points to boat, there are notes on the middle disk relative to positions of bow and beam. At least this is what I think is going on here! Mostly, I just think