Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials mid-century woodblock which could be used as

which could be used as a cup

but I found this painting on Ebay and it just called to me

original to it I think

as if standing silently by

plus Dorothy-like painted red slippers

Beautiful Antique School Slate with Mended Corners and Carved Initials mid-century woodblock which could be used asI love old school slates, but there are a lot out there and so they have to be pretty special for me to pick them up. Like this one, with these beautiful reinforcements added to the top two corners long ago just what was needed but nothing more to keep it holding sturdily together for another hundred years or so and I'd think it has another hundred yet in it now. As an added bonus, two different sets of initials were carved into the frame, on both top