Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials mid-century modern vase near perfect condition

near perfect condition

with raw linen face and body

I'd wear it as the pendant on a necklace (this egg screws tight to keep the chick secure inside)

I really love the white head of the one pin stuck in it too

Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials mid-century modern vase near perfect conditionI love old school slates, but there are a lot out there and so they have to be pretty special for me to pick them up. Like this one, with these beautiful reinforcements added to the top two corners long ago just what was needed but nothing more to keep it holding sturdily together for another hundred years or so and I'd think it has another hundred yet in it now. As an added bonus, two different sets of initials were carved into the frame, on both top