19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes weathered chain 6 5/8 x 4 3/8

6 5/8 x 4 3/8 x 3” t and in very good condition

I'd guess 1960s/early 70s

though also pretty easy to fashion another from a piece of wire

In addition to variation in the shape of the legs and feet

making it feel like quite a singular thing

19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes weathered chain 6 5/8 x 4 3/8Lots of different reasons for falling in love with antique school slates beautiful old mends, carvings into the wood, or, in this case, etchings into the surface of the slate itself. It's a lovely, unusually small, 19th century example to begin with, with wooden pegs at the jointed corners, but it is the work of R. P. T that really sold me, between those dimensional block initials, and cubes for periods, and stars and shapes and flourishes