Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) rulers which I think has the

which I think has the effect of heightening her erotism

sound and not fragile though one wants to be a little gentle with it

One hairline crack coming down from top edge of cup on one side and some staining to interior

and revealing more and more the more one looks

but I’m not quite sure what else this very lovely turned wooden case would have been made to hold

Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) rulers which I think has theFor me, as a great lover of antique school slates, this is as good as it gets. I have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other slate with narrow, rounded frame like this in my years of looking for them a shape which I find exceptionally graceful (and the thinness of which makes the slates survival seem all the more improbable), and which makes me think of bentwood boxes, too. And this one has an iron mend along the bottom edge of both sides to