Antique School Slate with Hand-etched Lines and Numbers (and Carved Initials) boot adding up to a wonderful

adding up to a wonderful lot of attitude

I like that they almost look as if carved of ice

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but I think this very early ‘90s hand-painted checkerboard makes a pretty strong argument for a more contemporary iteration

Antique School Slate with Hand-etched Lines and Numbers (and Carved Initials) boot adding up to a wonderfulLike stone fruit and bone dominoes, I love old school slates but am very particular about which ones! I think they're beautiful things to begin with, but am interested in ones that are distinctive and were personalized in one way or another. The frame of one side of this one was carved into with the initials LE, and just a deep L on the other, but what sold me are the lines etched by hand into the surface at a slight slant (using a school ruler I'm