AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair arts and crafts pottery bowl with trees and a building

with trees and a building visible behind the banner

though pre-dating Smith's emergence by 30+  years

including in a partial headstand

while also looping up to become him

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AM's Early School Slate with Unusual Make Do Leather and Square Nail Repair arts and crafts pottery bowl with trees and a buildingIf 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