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Ashtray - 2023.017.0001
Mottled purple and green slate ashtray. Slanted trapezoidal sides, the top of the square is smaller than the bottom. A large concave circle is carved on the top for the ashes. Four half cylinder channels are carved on the top surface in the center of each edge to rest the cigarette. Orange felt adhered to bottom to prevent sliding.
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Ashtray - 2023.019.0002
Slate ashtray. Gray, square with large circular depression at the center for ashes. Half-cylinder shaped indentation perpendicular to each top edge approximately one inch from each left edge to hold the resting cigarettes in place.
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Carving - 1996.018.0001a
One of a pair of miniature women's handcarved black slate shoes. Dark gray/black slate with etchings for laces and toe of shoe. Brought by donor's mother to the Slate Valley in 1884 when she immigrated from Northern Wales.
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Carving - 1996.018.0001b
One of a pair of miniature women's handcarved black slate shoes. Dark gray/black slate with etchings for laces and toe of shoe. Brought by donor's mother to the Slate Valley in 1884 when she immigrated from Northern Wales.
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Carving - 2013.007.0001
Red slate carving of a Native American male profile modeled after the Native American image in the Buffalo Head Nickel, minted between 1913 and 1938. Carved by John Joseph Billow, Sr. (1997 - 1975) in 1933 with a jack knife. Billow was born in West Pawlet, Vermont to Basil and Mary Billow. After service to his country in World War I, he married, lived in Granville and worked in the slate quarries providing for his family of five sons and one...
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Chalkboard - 2023.018.0002
Wood framed school writing slate. Reverse side painted off-white.
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Chalkboard - 2023.018.0003
Two dark gray rectangle slates, framed in wood. One side of each is marbleized. The frames are hinged together on the long side allowing the two sides to be folded with the marbleized side on the outside and the writing slate surface on the inside. Marbleized surfaces is marbleized in a different pattern.
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Checkerboard - 2023.018.0005
Square gameboard made from gray slate. Painted black with a borwn and white checkerboard in the center. White square border with a diamond pattern about halfway from the gameboard to the edge.
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Checkerboard - 2023.018.0006
Rectangular gray slate gameboard witha painted checkerboard. Yellow flower/star shape surrounded by a circle at each end. Semi-circle witha diagonal line in each corner.
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Coverplate - 2023.001.0003
Thin, rectangle pice of gray slate with six rounded square holes cut in the center. Used to cover the electrical wiring in the wall behind an outlet. It is missing the screw holes to mount it on the outlet box.
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Coverplate - 2023.001.0004
Thin, square pice of gray slate with two rectangular holes cut in the center and four drilledholes, two at the top and two at the bottom. Used to cover the electrical wiring in the wall behind a switch.
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Mold, Piece - 2023.018.0001
World War II goggle mold. Rectangular block of black slate. One side carved in the shape of goggles. Reverse side has two screws protruding. Two additional holes are drilled on each side of the screw but do not go all the way through to the front side. One hold is drilled from front to back located below the nose bridge of the goggle shape. The word "rough" is etched on the bottom side and "1" to bott of right side" and "R1" etched on the bac...
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Shelf - 2023.018.0004
Slate shelf with a scalloped front edge. Marbleized in a black, white and reddish-orange marble pattern.
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