Most Beautiful Antique School Slate with Etched Grids, Square Corners, Nice Mend bone game chips 7 1/2" t x 4

7 1/2" t x 4 1/2 w

) I think both drawings are really quite remarkable

typically prior to the beginning of a hunt--hence the fox head

that makes me think I really need to start paying more attention to Indian manuscripts

Most Beautiful Antique School Slate with Etched Grids, Square Corners, Nice Mend bone game chips 7 1/2" t x 4I'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