Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird It appears there may have

It appears there may have been a repair near the top of the handle long ago

showing the irregularities in the bone more dramatically than they appear to the eye

It's hard to convey scale in photos

Corner tears

with some cover wear

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird It appears there may haveI'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