Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) rulers with beautiful patinas all around

with beautiful patinas all around

and white stripes for the wing feathers

This one I found at a country/primitives show in Connecticut and just love that red white and blue--and green--embroidery against brown velvet

wealth will ensue

and huge bloom in hand

Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) rulers with beautiful patinas all aroundFor me, as a great lover of antique school slates, this is as good as it gets. I have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other slate with narrow, rounded frame like this in my years of looking for them a shape which I find exceptionally graceful (and the thinness of which makes the slates survival seem all the more improbable), and which makes me think of bentwood boxes, too. And this one has an iron mend along the bottom edge of both sides to