Antique School Slate with Hand-etched Lines and Numbers (and Carved Initials) heart-shaped antique lock Poirer's work often included riddles

Poirer's work often included riddles and rebuses

without too much of a stretch I think

Of course I like the old creamy white paint

held stable by the wrap

Antique School Slate with Hand-etched Lines and Numbers (and Carved Initials) heart-shaped antique lock Poirer's work often included riddlesLike stone fruit and bone dominoes, I love old school slates but am very particular about which ones! I think they're beautiful things to begin with, but am interested in ones that are distinctive and were personalized in one way or another. The frame of one side of this one was carved into with the initials LE, and just a deep L on the other, but what sold me are the lines etched by hand into the surface at a slight slant (using a school ruler I'm