Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints which from what I understand

which from what I understand were sold at Chinese opera performances as momentos

And certainly one could make a game of it now to see how many words one can spell with these 26 letters

just white against white

applied their knowledge of straw work to construct boxes in this manner

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints which from what I understandA beauty of an early handmade slate, earlier 19th c. than later I believe, with carved wooden pegs holding the jointed corners and one beautifully executed wrapped tin corner mend. I do believe antique school slates are a most wonderful thing to collect, each having lived quite a life, with old repairs like this enabling their endurance and making them special. How nice to create a whole wall of beautiful examples. 14" t x 9 3 4" w x 1 2", very good