Gorgeous Antique Wood Framed Large School Slate with Corner Reinforcements brass boot paperweight I am a firm believer

I am a firm believer in injecting little doses of happiness into as many daily rituals as possible

which in the mid-70s changed its name from Liggett & Myers to The Liggett Group

I think these colored dominoes (Farben-Domino) are just gorgeous

This hardcover first edition

and while I have seen many larger

Gorgeous Antique Wood Framed Large School Slate with Corner Reinforcements brass boot paperweight I am a firm believerThis is the most beautiful old school slate I believe I have ever seen. And I think it is also the heaviest! I have not found another with this sort of double frame all the way around, or with these reinforced corners, with what appear to me to be iron plates wrapping around the sides, held in place by clusters of fat nails. Just wonderful. Plus, a name carved into the wood at the top of one side, which looks to read Chas Magill or similar. I think