SOLD Scarce and Excellent Shepherd's New Slate Desk with Complete Set of Double-sided Inserts for Copying, c. 1870s cut paper sihouette with beautiful heavyweight rag paper

with beautiful heavyweight rag paper pages

other inlaid bits of wood

Two of these are eight sided

but it would also have allowed the user to make a traced heart their signature

and a split in the lid of its original wooden box

SOLD Scarce and Excellent Shepherd's New Slate Desk with Complete Set of Double-sided Inserts for Copying, c. 1870s cut paper sihouette with beautiful heavyweight rag paperI've had one or two of these over the years but they're pretty scarce and always get me excited and this one with its complete original set of inserts, and the ribbon, which sits under them on the right side and functions to release them when pulled, still in very good tact. There were a few different iterations of these, designed by Charles C. Shepherd of Passaic, New Jersey and New York for use in school drawing and penmanship lessons. With a wedge