Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird Great in a kid's room

Great in a kid's room

and with the original instructions for teaching use included

I believe this one dates from the 1830s-1850s

Plus that great black and blue bus graphic on the backs

The confidence and grace of this drawing and the two others make me think that perhaps JK was a professional illustrator--or at least on their way to being one

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird Great in a kid's roomI'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