Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend mcfalls visually equating Puss and Octopus

visually equating Puss and Octopus

most of which employed craftsmen arriving from Europe

each petal carefully sculpted

Scuffs and scratches all over as evident

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend mcfalls visually equating Puss and OctopusA 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