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

especially the larger sized ones as this is

and with a nice warm patina including old stained and light scratches and a little paint here and there

dating to the 1930s I believe

A point near the top of the head of this woman in profile is labeled Erongarícuaro (which means "Place of waiting" in the Purepecha language)

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