Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing folk art walking stick ) Very special feeling and

) Very special feeling and beautiful from every side

) or hanging in all sorts of places

I find it quite poignant

I would consider more for display that wearing--dimensions 8 3/4" l x 3" w x 2 1/2"

nothing delights me more than old drawings

Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing folk art walking stick ) Very special feeling andThis is a scarce one an early "transparent slate," c. 1860s, used as a drawing teaching tool. (The man pictured is Charles Fremont, Senator from California, first Republican candidate for president in 1856, and best known as "the Pathfinder" for expeditions to open the West to settlers.) As per the instructions on the back of the frame, one was meant to place one of the included engravings in the frame, use a "fine pointed black lead pencil" to trace