Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) hanf Details are most useful in

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All the legs move back and forth with ease

The double faced jug measures 4" tall x 3 3/4" across with handle

lovingly constructed of tin with its original glass in three of the four top level windows

And with that twine wound tightly and perfectly around a shallow notch cut into in the wood of the handle where the two sides of the split end of the handle (between which the shell was inserted) come together

Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) hanf Details are most useful inFor me, as a great lover of antique school slates, this is as good as it gets. I have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other slate with narrow, rounded frame like this in my years of looking for them a shape which I find exceptionally graceful (and the thinness of which makes the slates survival seem all the more improbable), and which makes me think of bentwood boxes, too. And this one has an iron mend along the bottom edge of both sides to