19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend wonderful box In any event they're all

In any event they're all memories now

very well cared for and clean

I love that it begins with the fable of the tortoise and the hare

with a few minor scratches to the exterior and very light wear to the lacquer around the edges

19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend wonderful box In any event they're allPurchased this week from a wonderful, old school dealer couple with a historic house of a shop in MA about an hour outside of Boston, this is just my sort of slate much loved and lovingly mended at one corner long ago with a scrap of metal surely cut from some other once functional thing laying around. With two lovely rows of iron nails there, wooden nails plugs still at a couple of the corners, and a beautiful patina to the rest of it. And traces of