Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints perhaps deriving from the famous

perhaps deriving from the famous dog of William the Silent

Perhaps it was once part of a tablecloth decoration

which from what I understand were sold at Chinese opera performances as momentos

just white against white

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints perhaps deriving from the famousA 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