Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) rulers wealth will ensue

wealth will ensue

This one I found at a country/primitives show in Connecticut and just love that red white and blue--and green--embroidery against brown velvet

and white stripes for the wing feathers

One hairline crack coming down from top edge of cup on one side and some staining to interior

13 3/8" x 15" and in very good antique condition

Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) rulers wealth will ensueFor me, as a great lover of antique school slates, this is as good as it gets. I have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other slate with narrow, rounded frame like this in my years of looking for them a shape which I find exceptionally graceful (and the thinness of which makes the slates survival seem all the more improbable), and which makes me think of bentwood boxes, too. And this one has an iron mend along the bottom edge of both sides to