Lots of different reasons for falling in love with antique school slates--beautiful old mends, carvings into the wood, or, in this case, etchings into the surface of the slate itself. It's a lovely, unusually small, 19th century example to begin with, with wooden pegs at the jointed corners, but it is the work of R.P.T that really sold me, between those dimensional block initials, and cubes for periods, and stars and shapes and flourishes surrounding. Detail photos give the best sense. Feels as if executed while staring at a pile of geometric solids, while also imagining their own future stardom!
8 1/2" x 6 3/8". Loss to front of frame at lower left corner as documented, still holding together fine but one wants to be a little gentle and the slate as a whole has a little wiggle.
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