Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend mcfalls of making it feel fresh

of making it feel fresh

Scuffs and scratches all over as evident

visually equating Puss and Octopus

I can't help to invent whole stories about things like this

which works fine

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend mcfalls of making it feel freshA 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