19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes carved handle form and here all those straight

and here all those straight lines in red and blue

dagger raised

and not especially fragile though one wants to take a little care with it

accordian pleated cone forms

Jones viewed his carvings as people and believed that if he carved a figure of a man

19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes carved handle form and here all those straightLots of different reasons for falling in love with antique school slates beautiful old mends, carvings into the wood, or, in this case, etchings into the surface of the slate itself. It's a lovely, unusually small, 19th century example to begin with, with wooden pegs at the jointed corners, but it is the work of R. P. T that really sold me, between those dimensional block initials, and cubes for periods, and stars and shapes and flourishes