19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes sun dial with a few tiny surface

with a few tiny surface stains

which hangs with a bit of a gap from his body

sturdy and sound and nicely aged

down to the blur of the dogs face

2 5/16" t x 15/16" in diameter

19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes sun dial with a few tiny surfaceLots of different reasons for falling in love with antique school slates beautiful old mends, carvings into the wood, or, in this case, etchings into the surface of the slate itself. It's a lovely, unusually small, 19th century example to begin with, with wooden pegs at the jointed corners, but it is the work of R. P. T that really sold me, between those dimensional block initials, and cubes for periods, and stars and shapes and flourishes