AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair painted tin rooster or setting a potted plant

or setting a potted plant

Great in the kitchen--or in the wine cellar should one be so lucky as to have one

3 1/8" x 2 1/16"

P Grimaud deck from the 19th century

Box measures 9 1/2" x 7 3/8" x 2 3/4"

AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair painted tin rooster or setting a potted plantIf 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