19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend smoky mirror Perfectly executed in upper case

Perfectly executed in upper case italics

I could spend hours playing around with them forming different words and phrases from what is at hand

I was sold on these blocks before I even opened the box: first for the great lithographed graphics on the lid

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19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend smoky mirror Perfectly executed in upper casePurchased this week from a wonderful, old school dealer couple with a historic house of a shop in MA about an hour outside of Boston, this is just my sort of slate much loved and lovingly mended at one corner long ago with a scrap of metal surely cut from some other once functional thing laying around. With two lovely rows of iron nails there, wooden nails plugs still at a couple of the corners, and a beautiful patina to the rest of it. And traces of