Antique School Slate with Hand-etched Lines and Numbers (and Carved Initials) things to hold other things and there are a couple

and there are a couple of dark spots on the wooden handle

those dark red whiskers and long zig zag of a body--just perfect

but historians now believe it is highly unlikely

Good placed where is can be enjoyed from a variety of angles

perhaps near one's favorite reading chair

Antique School Slate with Hand-etched Lines and Numbers (and Carved Initials) things to hold other things and there are a coupleLike stone fruit and bone dominoes, I love old school slates but am very particular about which ones! I think they're beautiful things to begin with, but am interested in ones that are distinctive and were personalized in one way or another. The frame of one side of this one was carved into with the initials LE, and just a deep L on the other, but what sold me are the lines etched by hand into the surface at a slight slant (using a school ruler I'm