1870s CC Shepherd Slant Slate with Eight Double Sided Insert Guides thermos but I might keep it

but I might keep it one the desk myself

a pre-Columbian civilization located in modern day Peru

but what makes this really special feeling to me is the manner in which it was cased--set under heavy glass

Such a curious vase

really only visible in a certain light

1870s CC Shepherd Slant Slate with Eight Double Sided Insert Guides thermos but I might keep itI've always wanted to find one of these, but this is the first I've come across still with its full deck of inserts, and an early one made by CC Shepherd c. 1875. There were two different versions of this produced: one opening like a desk to store the guides (and chalk) inside, and this one, with a niche at top into which the plates fit together stacked. (There is an orange ribbon visible when they are removed, the end of which would have served as a