Most Beautiful Antique School Slate with Etched Grids, Square Corners, Nice Mend composition dolls Signed at lower right but

Signed at lower right but I can't quite make out the name

As a result

Plenty of dings and a little rust

perhaps drawn with the aid of a microscope

and the paper does too

Most Beautiful Antique School Slate with Etched Grids, Square Corners, Nice Mend composition dolls Signed at lower right butI've got a special weakness for antique school slates, and I find this one as beautiful as any I've ever found in significant part for the grids scratched into the surface of the slate on both sides, and for how the proportions and very square corners of the frame wed perfectly with the geometry of the gridding. And with a lovely iron mend reinforcement to one corner, perfect old chain for hanging, and days of the week etched into the widest column of