Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints and an oil painting on

and an oil painting on wood panel

Perhaps it was once part of a tablecloth decoration

love" is clear

general light aging/spotting to the mirror

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints and an oil painting onA 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