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Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing hammered The hair is real badger

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The hair is real badger hair

Pull the ends together at the base of the handle with the right pressure and he'll do a handstand

To my eye and sensibilities

I would guess they were in fact made by an artist who knew exactly what they were doing--my first thought when I found them was of Magdalena Suarez Frimkess

Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing hammered The hair is real badgerThis is a scarce one an early "transparent slate," c. 1860s, used as a drawing teaching tool. (The man pictured is Charles Fremont, Senator from California, first Republican candidate for president in 1856, and best known as "the Pathfinder" for expeditions to open the West to settlers.) As per the instructions on the back of the frame, one was meant to place one of the included engravings in the frame, use a "fine pointed black lead pencil" to trace

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