19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend smoky mirror and with a sliding slat

and with a sliding slat that pulls out to expose the slit for dropping coins inside

Loaded with personality and very charming

The things people once invested so much care into making never fails to amazing me

With several layers of lace around her collar and an organza apron that can be removed to show her white cotton skirt with eyelet lace trim underneath

19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend smoky mirror and with a sliding slatPurchased 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