AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair rebus vessel aside from missing arms and

aside from missing arms and feet

There's a layer of gold flecked varnish over her body

much loved thing that feels special to me and with many years of use left in it

Penmanship includes a number of poems and phrases

as if fire--or even a tornado

AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair rebus vessel aside from missing arms andIf 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