Dan Krueger wrote in message nk.net...
9ga wire is thicker than 12 ga wire, etc. I don't know of any other products
where smaller is bigger...

Dan


I found out what this one is, it's a gauge for glass.
This is from a glass glossary off the web:

"Light: Another term for an entire stained glass window or a portion
of one with defined boundaries."

So "lights per inch" is the same as sheets of glass per inch. I
measured the gauge and found that each number on that side of it was
indeed a fraction of an inch.

I did some research on the web, and found a historical Pittsburg site
in which there were several references to G.W. Klages on a "Pittsburgh
commodity index" page from 1913. All references to Klages mention
glass cutting, as seen in the link below:

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-...dno=00awn7766m