Hey Porch.  Coming out of lurk mode to ask a question.  I have a caliper, or at
least I think that's what it is, that looks old and is made of brass and steel.
The caliper has a register that is made of brass with the rest of the tool being
steel.  It is pinned together with a small flat head screw and gets its "spring"
action from a section of a leg split and bent upward to act as a spring so that
when you squeeze the legs the caliper opens and the end of one leg points to the
register.  Hard to explain.  See pics here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/122649122@N.../albums/72157677299550057

There is something missing at the end of the pointing leg.  Probably a
screw/lock nut to hold the caliper at the reading?

On the back of the register is a hand written note in cursive (which my ten year
would consider a foreign language, but that's another story); "Each degree
represents 1/132 of an inch or 1/5 and 1/4 millimeters".

Anyone know what this is?

Jason