Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides made in Korea and black text yellow ground

and black text yellow ground and white and blue Capital surrounded by green trees

I've used little brass ducks to hold down the corners of the pages for photographing

with his other hand so perfectly poised it kills me

but I thought they were worthy of rescuing from a pile at the flea market

or a just a tender little drawing or watercolor or photograph--or a great one for framing and gifting a photo of oneself

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides made in Korea and black text yellow groundI've bought and sold a lot of old school slates, usually attracted by the often mended (and best of all carved into) frames on very antique ones. In this case, though, it is the slate itself that sold me, one side etched with a grid, as one sometimes sees, but more unusually the other with angled guide lines of varying widths, designed for practicing cursive writing at just the right slant I believe, both in capitals and lower case. And that side