Beautifully Worn and Mended Antique School Slate railroad signal flag with some wear to the

with some wear to the black paint and a few tiny chips but looks and plays great

of which there are a wonderful variety out there

which is now gone

Box is 12 7/8" x 9 3/4" x 1 1/2" and shows some wear

Beautifully Worn and Mended Antique School Slate railroad signal flag with some wear to theOne 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