Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend mcfalls evocative signs of sorts

evocative signs of sorts

of making it feel fresh

from what I understand

visually equating Puss and Octopus

great for all sorts of displays--and who can ever have too many magnifiers laying around

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend mcfalls evocative signs of sortsA 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