AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair painted tin rooster 3 1/8" x 2 1/16"

3 1/8" x 2 1/16"

10 1/4" x 8 3/8"

papier mache box look not just like tortoiseshell

P Grimaud deck from the 19th century

AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair painted tin rooster 3 1/8" x 2 1/16"If I had the space, I would fill a whole wall with antique school slates with mends and carved in marks of all sorts. So much life and artful repair born of necessity embedded in them. As it is, I am always looking. Rare in my experience to find one with a repair done in leather, which is what makes this one particularly special to me. Attached by three square nails, each nail backed by a leather round in front of the larger leather triangle, which