AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair rebus vessel ) Original dark red paint

) Original dark red paint

Penmanship includes a number of poems and phrases

There's a layer of gold flecked varnish over her body

aside from missing arms and feet

and the more time I spend with it the more I love it

AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair rebus vessel ) Original dark red paintIf 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