Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints applied their knowledge of straw

applied their knowledge of straw work to construct boxes in this manner

but as is obvious my tastes are fairly far-ranging

the brass on the interior

which from what I understand were sold at Chinese opera performances as momentos

Perhaps it was once part of a tablecloth decoration

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend antique bluprints applied their knowledge of strawA beauty of an early handmade slate, earlier 19th c. than later I believe, with carved wooden pegs holding the jointed corners and one beautifully executed wrapped tin corner mend. I do believe antique school slates are a most wonderful thing to collect, each having lived quite a life, with old repairs like this enabling their endurance and making them special. How nice to create a whole wall of beautiful examples. 14" t x 9 3 4" w x 1 2", very good