Large Antique Slate with Hand-carved, Numbered Grid new mexico which still pops

which still pops

but I love whoever did

which I assumes stands for 1974

I've seen handled bowls of this form described as mortars

Large Antique Slate with Hand-carved, Numbered Grid new mexico which still popsThis terrific old chalkboard is too large to have been a student's school slate; rather I think it must have been used in a general store or other business context where an ever changing numbered list would be useful. In addition to the wonderfully worn, very sturdy wooden frame with jointed corners secured with wooden pins what I find especially beautiful are the hand written numbers, carved incised into the state itself, as are the gridded lines,