Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints the brass on the interior

the brass on the interior

Perhaps it was once part of a tablecloth decoration

but as is obvious my tastes are fairly far-ranging

And certainly one could make a game of it now to see how many words one can spell with these 26 letters

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints the brass on the interiorA beauty of an early handmade slate, earlier 19th c. than later I believe, with carved wooden pegs holding the jointed corners and one beautifully executed wrapped tin corner mend. I do believe antique school slates are a most wonderful thing to collect, each having lived quite a life, with old repairs like this enabling their endurance and making them special. How nice to create a whole wall of beautiful examples. 14" t x 9 3 4" w x 1 2", very good