Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing handmade scrapbook this one of a Master

this one of a Master Samuel Brown

pretty minor (the worst of these is pictured in a detail photo)

This of course is made all the better by the alligatoring of the black paint

And then this red wooden tongue that goes in and out as he rolls along

It only lasted 2 years

Scarce c. 1860s "Transparent Slate" with Eleven Engravings for Tracing handmade scrapbook this one of a MasterThis 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