Beautifully Worn and Mended Antique School Slate die-cut sheets of animals this nature of the carving

this nature of the carving leans more toward rustic than super refined

Signed (incised) AD on the bottom

is Zanesville

coupled with the fantastic turquoise and yellow of his outfit

Beautifully Worn and Mended Antique School Slate die-cut sheets of animals this nature of the carvingOne comes across a fair number of old school slates, which are lovely object for sure, but it is the ones that look like they've been through battle (in the classroom), mended and mended and mended again, that I really love. Just think of all that has been written across the surfaces of this (real) slate, and the to and fros from school it has done; I imagine it being thrown to the ground time and again in order for its owner s to run off to play, or