Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird I believe this one dates

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

showing the irregularities in the bone more dramatically than they appear to the eye

based on others I have found with similar coloration and age

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

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird I believe this one datesI'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