Beautifully Worn and Mended Antique School Slate eskimo art exhibition This thing weighs a ton

This thing weighs a ton

plus a decorative border of flowers and vines and corresponding carved edge

is the wit of many of those who signed it

Glazed a striking

Beautifully Worn and Mended Antique School Slate eskimo art exhibition This thing weighs a tonOne comes across a fair number of old school slates, which are lovely object for sure, but it is the ones that look like they've been through battle (in the classroom), mended and mended and mended again, that I really love. Just think of all that has been written across the surfaces of this (real) slate, and the to and fros from school it has done; I imagine it being thrown to the ground time and again in order for its owner s to run off to play, or