Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend mcfalls each petal carefully sculpted

each petal carefully sculpted

evocative signs of sorts

visually equating Puss and Octopus

Scuffs and scratches all over as evident

I can't help to invent whole stories about things like this

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend mcfalls each petal carefully sculptedA 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