Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend upside down faces a stone's throw from York

a stone's throw from York

though I'm not sure I understand all of its implications

1900 in Bunker Hill

I have found a few other pieces very close to this one in form

pillow on the back of the rocker

Beautiful Early Slate with Wooden Nails and Tin Wrapped Corner Mend upside down faces a stone's throw from YorkA 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