Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints love" is clear

love" is clear

just white against white

the brass on the interior

but as is obvious my tastes are fairly far-ranging

with very finely cut out antennae

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints love" is clearA 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