19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes carved handle form " No later than early

"   No later than early 19th century I believe

and patches of iridescence and encrustation

Jones viewed his carvings as people and believed that if he carved a figure of a man

backed with a couple of pieces of matboard

dagger raised

19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes carved handle form " No later than earlyLots 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