19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend wonderful box Perfectly painted gold with

Perfectly painted gold with

determined to make her own autograph book

(Given wide exposure at The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in 1851

with a few minor scratches to the exterior and very light wear to the lacquer around the edges

19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend wonderful box Perfectly painted gold withPurchased this week from a wonderful, old school dealer couple with a historic house of a shop in MA about an hour outside of Boston, this is just my sort of slate much loved and lovingly mended at one corner long ago with a scrap of metal surely cut from some other once functional thing laying around. With two lovely rows of iron nails there, wooden nails plugs still at a couple of the corners, and a beautiful patina to the rest of it. And traces of