Beautiful Early School Slate with Hand-Carved Pegs and Initials on Both Sides balls and cages should you purchase this and

should you purchase this and not be completely happy with it

during the height of real photo postcard popularity when it was common to have postcards made using ones own photos

including for the fact that they the names of the dogs are featured on the reverses in beautiful lettering

In between are lots of putti

and the blue is super saturated and super crisp

Beautiful Early School Slate with Hand-Carved Pegs and Initials on Both Sides balls and cages should you purchase this andI don't think I'll ever get over my love of beautiful antique school slates, in significant part for the fact that almost as much as any other sort of object they bear their entire history of use and ownership on their surfaces. This I think is a very old one, late 18th early 19th century I would guess, framed in walnut I believe and with finely carved wooden pins holding the corners together. Into one long edge on one side are the initials JEF, and