Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials mid-century woodblock but this is quite an

but this is quite an unusual one and one of my very favorites

Plain yellow on the back

And then those teeth

original to it I think

but I found this painting on Ebay and it just called to me

Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials mid-century woodblock but this is quite anI love old school slates, but there are a lot out there and so they have to be pretty special for me to pick them up. Like this one, with these beautiful reinforcements added to the top two corners long ago just what was needed but nothing more to keep it holding sturdily together for another hundred years or so and I'd think it has another hundred yet in it now. As an added bonus, two different sets of initials were carved into the frame, on both top