Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird showing the irregularities in the

showing the irregularities in the bone more dramatically than they appear to the eye

Great in a kid's room

The confidence and grace of this drawing and the two others make me think that perhaps JK was a professional illustrator--or at least on their way to being one

I believe this one dates from the 1830s-1850s

based on others I have found with similar coloration and age

Lovely Old School Slate with Angled and Gridded Guides perched bird showing the irregularities in theI've bought and sold a lot of old school slates, usually attracted by the often mended (and best of all carved into) frames on very antique ones. In this case, though, it is the slate itself that sold me, one side etched with a grid, as one sometimes sees, but more unusually the other with angled guide lines of varying widths, designed for practicing cursive writing at just the right slant I believe, both in capitals and lower case. And that side