19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes carved handle form and here all those straight

and here all those straight lines in red and blue

and patches of iridescence and encrustation

Nice weight to them

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19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes carved handle form and here all those straightLots of different reasons for falling in love with antique school slates beautiful old mends, carvings into the wood, or, in this case, etchings into the surface of the slate itself. It's a lovely, unusually small, 19th century example to begin with, with wooden pegs at the jointed corners, but it is the work of R. P. T that really sold me, between those dimensional block initials, and cubes for periods, and stars and shapes and flourishes