Slate Pencil - c. Mid-1800s ✏️📜As we gear up for another back-to-school season, let's take a nostalgic journey back in time! 🎒📚This slate pencil and roof tile, unearthed from a privy off Thames St. in Fells Point, give us a glimpse of the school tools of yesteryears. Before our current fancy mechanical pencils and iPads, students of ancient civilizations relied on sticks of slate, clay, or stone to jot down their notes. 📝Zooming into the Victorian era, picture this: school children eagerly a