Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing folk art walking stick most never opened or used

most never opened or used (just two of the bandage boxes are empty

It's maker carved a fancy monogram there too

for Cornwall Bridge Pottery in Cornwall

of song and of wine / The sights you see there at the St

nothing delights me more than old drawings

Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing folk art walking stick most never opened or usedThis is a scarce one an early "transparent slate," c. 1860s, used as a drawing teaching tool. (The man pictured is Charles Fremont, Senator from California, first Republican candidate for president in 1856, and best known as "the Pathfinder" for expeditions to open the West to settlers.) As per the instructions on the back of the frame, one was meant to place one of the included engravings in the frame, use a "fine pointed black lead pencil" to trace