Antique Wood Framed Double Sided School Slate figurative pottery dish Unemployed in 1935

Unemployed in 1935

From the dense clusters of rusty fat nails attaching the notched plank legs to the seat

each featuring one animal with information about it on back

with the sides of the darker joined by nails and the lighter with lovely dovetail joints

Antique Wood Framed Double Sided School Slate figurative pottery dish Unemployed in 1935I love these old school slates, made with real slate that retains a sense of many many years of school lessons performed across its surface and I believe this is an especially old one (19th c I think), so all the more so. I especially love the simple wood frame on this one just what it needs to be, and not quite square, plus one bottom corner of the frame exposes the edge of the slate inside, making its authenticity all the more apparent. The jointed