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

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

The Ransom and Sarah Williams Farmstead: Post-Emancipation

Four Sided Antique Silent Slate with Slate Pencil – critical EYE Finds

Heyer Saga, PDF, Armenia

A slate book with “noiseless” slate pencils

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

This Place in History: Slate Pencils — Vermont Historical Society

Wisconsin 101

Slate pencils, pencil talk