Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides made in Korea butting heads and getting their

butting heads and getting their arms swinging

but I thought they were worthy of rescuing from a pile at the flea market

which I will do

and though a devout Catholic surely no saint

or exactly straight

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides made in Korea butting heads and getting theirI've bought and sold a lot of old school slates, usually attracted by the often mended (and best of all carved into) frames on very antique ones. In this case, though, it is the slate itself that sold me, one side etched with a grid, as one sometimes sees, but more unusually the other with angled guide lines of varying widths, designed for practicing cursive writing at just the right slant I believe, both in capitals and lower case. And that side