Super Painterly and Clever Antique Miniature Fourth of July Celebration Slate from Slatington, PA apothecary chest A charming and useful set

A charming and useful set of tools to add to the sewing kit

I have since found others similar (including in museum collections) and know that it likely came from Guererro in Mexico

I believe dating it to the late 19th century or so

as one gets to see the back

Super Painterly and Clever Antique Miniature Fourth of July Celebration Slate from Slatington, PA apothecary chest A charming and useful setI spotted this one from a distance in a case and made a bee line for it the combination of the lush red white and blues of the taped perimeter in combination with the matte gray of the slate makes it to my eye a most gorgeous thing; a found painting if I ever saw one. It took me a minute to decipher the printed text on the reverse, but it reads: Fourth of July Celebration Slatington PA, with just the year worn enough not to be sure of (my guess is