Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials tall vase with branching tree It features a lid that

It features a lid that opens to reveal storage on the top half

is known as a bird carver: shorebirds

unlikely existence to begin with

I bought a bunch of these together

Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials tall vase with branching tree It features a lid thatI love old school slates, but there are a lot out there and so they have to be pretty special for me to pick them up. Like this one, with these beautiful reinforcements added to the top two corners long ago just what was needed but nothing more to keep it holding sturdily together for another hundred years or so and I'd think it has another hundred yet in it now. As an added bonus, two different sets of initials were carved into the frame, on both top