Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints and an oil painting on

and an oil painting on wood panel

but as is obvious my tastes are fairly far-ranging

with very finely cut out antennae

applied their knowledge of straw work to construct boxes in this manner

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints and an oil painting onA beauty of an early handmade slate, earlier 19th c. than later I believe, with carved wooden pegs holding the jointed corners and one beautifully executed wrapped tin corner mend. I do believe antique school slates are a most wonderful thing to collect, each having lived quite a life, with old repairs like this enabling their endurance and making them special. How nice to create a whole wall of beautiful examples. 14" t x 9 3 4" w x 1 2", very good