Antique School Slate with Hand-etched Lines and Numbers (and Carved Initials) heart-shaped antique lock or maybe WS

or maybe WS

just resting on a nail

and one small area of staining on the back

Of course I like the old creamy white paint

not really applicable to the diamonds

Antique School Slate with Hand-etched Lines and Numbers (and Carved Initials) heart-shaped antique lock or maybe WSLike 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