Beautiful Early School Slate with Hand-Carved Pegs and Initials on Both Sides balls and cages and the blue is super

and the blue is super saturated and super crisp

and one could certainly push a load of tiny things around it it

it would make the perfect bedside vase for a cabin in the woods

I'd guess the painting--titled "The Story"--portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

Perhaps a secret snuff compartment

Beautiful Early School Slate with Hand-Carved Pegs and Initials on Both Sides balls and cages and the blue is superI don't think I'll ever get over my love of beautiful antique school slates, in significant part for the fact that almost as much as any other sort of object they bear their entire history of use and ownership on their surfaces. This I think is a very old one, late 18th early 19th century I would guess, framed in walnut I believe and with finely carved wooden pins holding the corners together. Into one long edge on one side are the initials JEF, and