19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend gifts sign and with a nice warm

and with a nice warm patina including old stained and light scratches and a little paint here and there

Froebel's Kindergarten used play as its engine and his Spielgaben ("play gifts") were the fuel

A point near the top of the head of this woman in profile is labeled Erongarícuaro (which means "Place of waiting" in the Purepecha language)

wooden rat reminds me a lot of old carved folk art ice fishing decoys

structural sound

19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend gifts sign and with a nice warmPurchased this week from a wonderful, old school dealer couple with a historic house of a shop in MA about an hour outside of Boston, this is just my sort of slate much loved and lovingly mended at one corner long ago with a scrap of metal surely cut from some other once functional thing laying around. With two lovely rows of iron nails there, wooden nails plugs still at a couple of the corners, and a beautiful patina to the rest of it. And traces of