Gorgeous Antique Wood Framed Large School Slate with Corner Reinforcements brass boot paperweight and I swear espresso tastes

and I swear espresso tastes better in them

I continue to marvel at the wide array of things humans of different cultures do with walnuts

or also signify sainthood once the doing is done

and while I have seen many larger

The expressive but subtly rendered brown

Gorgeous Antique Wood Framed Large School Slate with Corner Reinforcements brass boot paperweight and I swear espresso tastesThis is the most beautiful old school slate I believe I have ever seen. And I think it is also the heaviest! I have not found another with this sort of double frame all the way around, or with these reinforced corners, with what appear to me to be iron plates wrapping around the sides, held in place by clusters of fat nails. Just wonderful. Plus, a name carved into the wood at the top of one side, which looks to read Chas Magill or similar. I think