Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird Corner tears

Corner tears

I believe this one dates from the 1830s-1850s

Plus that great black and blue bus graphic on the backs

with some cover wear

based on others I have found with similar coloration and age

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird Corner tearsI'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