Antique School Slate with SLATE Etched In antique wood framed slate though I might want to

though I might want to keep it out all of the time

or maybe she topped a post

which got me looking closely

once framed

Antique School Slate with SLATE Etched In antique wood framed slate though I might want toI love an antique school slate, and even more one that bears the traces of a prior owner, and of course I'm drawn like a magnet to things relating to language, especially when self descriptive. On one side of this one, etched into the slate, is "SLATE" itself, handwritten in capital serif lettering, which sure looks to me as if written in the 19th century based on the manner of the lettering. Perhaps the child who wrote it imagined with great