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

and with the original instructions for teaching use included

A great gift for the aspiring designer or for coffee table play for anyone

I believe this one dates from the 1830s-1850s

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