Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) clipper ship no visible watermark

no visible watermark

and wonderfully shaped "blade

I found one box of them just like this in the digital collection of the Huntington Library

whose name appears in gold at lower left on the reverse glass painted border

On the flip side

Most Beautiful Antique Slate in Rare Rounded Frame with Iron Mend (and Incised 1851) clipper ship no visible watermarkFor me, as a great lover of antique school slates, this is as good as it gets. I have seen (and bought and sold) exactly one other slate with narrow, rounded frame like this in my years of looking for them a shape which I find exceptionally graceful (and the thinness of which makes the slates survival seem all the more improbable), and which makes me think of bentwood boxes, too. And this one has an iron mend along the bottom edge of both sides to