“Found this washed up on a beach in Massachusetts. It’s wooden and looks handcrafted... Maybe a piece of a chair?”
A: "Wow! It looks like a Davis quadrant or a backstaff, a navigational instrument that is the predecessor of the sextant."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqmGFfiuXrM
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You're welcome.
Confidential?
Centennial? Continental?
From "The" Continent.
Like Continental manners would include not making a big deal out of someone's typo.
Gretchen,
In surgery, we call them Gigli.
If you're brave enough.