19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend gifts sign Froebel's Kindergarten used play as

Froebel's Kindergarten used play as its engine and his Spielgaben ("play gifts") were the fuel

structural sound

especially the larger sized ones as this is

dating to the 1930s I believe

wooden rat reminds me a lot of old carved folk art ice fishing decoys

19th C. School Slate with Lovely Old Corner Mend gifts sign Froebel's Kindergarten used play asPurchased this week from a wonderful, old school dealer couple with a historic house of a shop in MA about an hour outside of Boston, this is just my sort of slate much loved and lovingly mended at one corner long ago with a scrap of metal surely cut from some other once functional thing laying around. With two lovely rows of iron nails there, wooden nails plugs still at a couple of the corners, and a beautiful patina to the rest of it. And traces of