This slate pencil likely belonged to a Boston schoolchild in the 1800s. Slate pencils were made of soapstone or softer pieces of slate that smeared when rubbed against a slate tablet. This

Pencils

Pencil: A Writing and Drawing Implement - Studocu

Wisconsin 101

Trademarks Journal Vol. 69 No. 3530

School Slate & Pencil, Victorian, Original

12: Examples of slate pencils; top to bottom; a cut slate pencil

The Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, July-Dec. 1827

Found 20 years ago in Middlesex County CT. Stone multi-tool? : r

slate