Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials mid-century modern vase I believe from either the

I believe from either the German Schwarzwald mountain region in southwestern Germany

it comes from Grenfell Mission in Labrador

I'd wear it as the pendant on a necklace (this egg screws tight to keep the chick secure inside)

and that there was at least one version of him that came with a little cub that he pushed along in front of him as he walked

Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials mid-century modern vase I believe from either theI love old school slates, but there are a lot out there and so they have to be pretty special for me to pick them up. Like this one, with these beautiful reinforcements added to the top two corners long ago just what was needed but nothing more to keep it holding sturdily together for another hundred years or so and I'd think it has another hundred yet in it now. As an added bonus, two different sets of initials were carved into the frame, on both top