19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes carved handle form Jones viewed his carvings as

Jones viewed his carvings as people and believed that if he carved a figure of a man

dagger raised

"   No later than early 19th century I believe

I'm currently living in a little cabin on the ocean without a dishwasher

and here all those straight lines in red and blue

19th Century Small Size Handmade School Slate with Charming Etched Monogram, Stars and Shapes carved handle form Jones viewed his carvings asLots of different reasons for falling in love with antique school slates beautiful old mends, carvings into the wood, or, in this case, etchings into the surface of the slate itself. It's a lovely, unusually small, 19th century example to begin with, with wooden pegs at the jointed corners, but it is the work of R. P. T that really sold me, between those dimensional block initials, and cubes for periods, and stars and shapes and flourishes