Antique School Slate with SLATE Etched In mourning in absence of a face

in absence of a face

and I love the idea of a "Deposite No

and always paddle your own canoe

Great color and surface

As they were done as a pair

Antique School Slate with SLATE Etched In mourning in absence of a faceI love an antique school slate, and even more one that bears the traces of a prior owner, and of course I'm drawn like a magnet to things relating to language, especially when self descriptive. On one side of this one, etched into the slate, is "SLATE" itself, handwritten in capital serif lettering, which sure looks to me as if written in the 19th century based on the manner of the lettering. Perhaps the child who wrote it imagined with great