AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair arts and crafts pottery bowl but also a great silhouette

but also a great silhouette and pop of color for the shelf

though pre-dating Smith's emergence by 30+  years

these blocks are clearly quite old

This is the largest boxed set of Color Cubes that was ever produced by The Embossing Company

AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair arts and crafts pottery bowl but also a great silhouetteIf I had the space, I would fill a whole wall with antique school slates with mends and carved in marks of all sorts. So much life and artful repair born of necessity embedded in them. As it is, I am always looking. Rare in my experience to find one with a repair done in leather, which is what makes this one particularly special to me. Attached by three square nails, each nail backed by a leather round in front of the larger leather triangle, which