Antique School Slate with SLATE Etched In lattice tray but it is about 28"

but it is about 28" long

and some paint loss on the frame

just surface wear as evident

with a label from the Realites gallery in Paris on the back

Antique School Slate with SLATE Etched In lattice tray but it is about 28"I love an antique school slate, and even more one that bears the traces of a prior owner, and of course I'm drawn like a magnet to things relating to language, especially when self descriptive. On one side of this one, etched into the slate, is "SLATE" itself, handwritten in capital serif lettering, which sure looks to me as if written in the 19th century based on the manner of the lettering. Perhaps the child who wrote it imagined with great