Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend upside down faces I could tell included some

I could tell included some extra old ones

though I'm not sure I understand all of its implications

which also included paintings and prints

pillow on the back of the rocker

but I didn't want to mess with the  casualness of it all which I really like

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend upside down faces I could tell included someA 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