Most Beautiful Antique School Slate with Etched Grids, Square Corners, Nice Mend gift for businessperson but holding on nicely to

but holding on nicely to the rest of it

for many many years

in excellent  condition

Surely all done by one person

Most Beautiful Antique School Slate with Etched Grids, Square Corners, Nice Mend gift for businessperson but holding on nicely toI've got a special weakness for antique school slates, and I find this one as beautiful as any I've ever found in significant part for the grids scratched into the surface of the slate on both sides, and for how the proportions and very square corners of the frame wed perfectly with the geometry of the gridding. And with a lovely iron mend reinforcement to one corner, perfect old chain for hanging, and days of the week etched into the widest column of