19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend smoky mirror Perfectly executed in upper case

Perfectly executed in upper case italics

3 1/2" tall x 3 1/2" wide x 3 3/8" deep

I would probably not use as pestle on it

With several layers of lace around her collar and an organza apron that can be removed to show her white cotton skirt with eyelet lace trim underneath

19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend smoky mirror Perfectly executed in upper casePurchased 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