MH's Early American Primitive School Slate, All Original, Marvelous Patina pun and is incised with lines

and is incised with lines

The larger shows one small crack that runs down from the lip the bowl and a little roughness around the edge otherwise

and I think this is quite a marvelous image in its sharpness and lushness

"the ball went under my bed about 1941 I can't reach it

MH's Early American Primitive School Slate, All Original, Marvelous Patina pun and is incised with linesYou know I love an old school slate, but it's a rare occasion I come across one with a frame as beautifully primitive as this one, pine I believe, which has accrued the warmest and richest dry patina over the past 150+ years. Many of the old school slates one sees were made in England, but this I am certain is American, found in Maine, all original, one small square iron nail next to one larger one at each of the jointed corners. Very sturdy and