Double-sided Painting On School Slate: Seascape + Board on Fence 19th century reading book handle measures 7/16" in diameter

handle measures 7/16" in diameter

including Ted Berrigan

happily attached to a great black painted wooden post with gold painted pointy finial

11 1/4" x 3 1/4" w x 2 3/4" and in very good

Double-sided Painting On School Slate: Seascape + Board on Fence 19th century reading book handle measures 7/16" in diameterThis old school slate provided the perfect surface upon which to paint two different views get tired of one, just turn it around! I may be a bit partial to the moody seascape, pretty transportive in its deep aqua blues, with glowy full moon and one ship sailing along in the distance, but the snowy landscape with bird perched on fence like a watchful guardian in the foreground is pretty great too! Late 19th early 20th century I would guess, with the