Beautiful Early School Slate with Hand-Carved Pegs and Initials on Both Sides balls and cages 12”h x 4”w x 2"

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I'd guess the painting--titled "The Story"--portrays Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden

should you purchase this and not be completely happy with it

Either way positioned

Perhaps a secret snuff compartment

Beautiful Early School Slate with Hand-Carved Pegs and Initials on Both Sides balls and cages 12”h x 4”w x 2"I don't think I'll ever get over my love of beautiful antique school slates, in significant part for the fact that almost as much as any other sort of object they bear their entire history of use and ownership on their surfaces. This I think is a very old one, late 18th early 19th century I would guess, framed in walnut I believe and with finely carved wooden pins holding the corners together. Into one long edge on one side are the initials JEF, and