Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) hanf All the legs move back

All the legs move back and forth with ease

Details are most useful in giving a sense of the level of detail and gorgeous color here

with stamped cigar box label visible on the underside

) Overall good antique condition

Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) hanf All the legs move backFor me, as a great lover of antique school slates, this is as good as it gets. I have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other slate with narrow, rounded frame like this in my years of looking for them a shape which I find exceptionally graceful (and the thinness of which makes the slates survival seem all the more improbable), and which makes me think of bentwood boxes, too. And this one has an iron mend along the bottom edge of both sides to