Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) rulers wealth will ensue

wealth will ensue

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

This one I found at a country/primitives show in Connecticut and just love that red white and blue--and green--embroidery against brown velvet

and white stripes for the wing feathers

which I think has the effect of heightening her erotism

Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) rulers wealth will ensueFor 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