19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend

Regular price $75.00

Purchased 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 old chalk writing across the face of the slate.

12 7/8" x 8 3/4" x 7/16" and in good antique condition. Sturdy and sound, with two old holes at top for threading and hanging if desired.