Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides playing card dominoes I'd love it filled with

I'd love it filled with a a couple of tall flowering branches or a few huge Asiatic lilies

it looks 1940s or so to me

and there is a brass latch at front that holds it closed very well

a couple of old fold lines at the bottom left corner

Painting itself is in very good condition

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides playing card dominoes I'd love it filled withI've bought and sold a lot of old school slates, usually attracted by the often mended (and best of all carved into) frames on very antique ones. In this case, though, it is the slate itself that sold me, one side etched with a grid, as one sometimes sees, but more unusually the other with angled guide lines of varying widths, designed for practicing cursive writing at just the right slant I believe, both in capitals and lower case. And that side