Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides playing card dominoes I'm listing these two together

I'm listing these two together as I'd love to seem them stick together as they have for maybe close to hundred years

and are little rattles

with the (albeit a bit tattered) instruction booklet

and there is a brass latch at front that holds it closed very well

In terrific antique condition

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides playing card dominoes I'm listing these two togetherI've bought and sold a lot of old school slates, usually attracted by the often mended (and best of all carved into) frames on very antique ones. In this case, though, it is the slate itself that sold me, one side etched with a grid, as one sometimes sees, but more unusually the other with angled guide lines of varying widths, designed for practicing cursive writing at just the right slant I believe, both in capitals and lower case. And that side