AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair painted tin rooster all the way around

all the way around

with what I find beautiful softening to the once bright primary colors

papier mache box look not just like tortoiseshell

though apart from the queen

AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair painted tin rooster all the way aroundIf I had the space, I would fill a whole wall with antique school slates with mends and carved in marks of all sorts. So much life and artful repair born of necessity embedded in them. As it is, I am always looking. Rare in my experience to find one with a repair done in leather, which is what makes this one particularly special to me. Attached by three square nails, each nail backed by a leather round in front of the larger leather triangle, which