Beautifully Worn and Mended Antique School Slate eskimo art exhibition and phallus peeking out below

and phallus peeking out below that terrifically patterned green cloth

The lip and base reveal its brass interior

importantly

but I love the drawings of these two little girls and dog with tongue hanging out of its mouth so much

This thing weighs a ton

Beautifully Worn and Mended Antique School Slate eskimo art exhibition and phallus peeking out belowOne comes across a fair number of old school slates, which are lovely object for sure, but it is the ones that look like they've been through battle (in the classroom), mended and mended and mended again, that I really love. Just think of all that has been written across the surfaces of this (real) slate, and the to and fros from school it has done; I imagine it being thrown to the ground time and again in order for its owner s to run off to play, or