My Latest Favorite Stool, 19th C. in Gray Over Mustard Paint with Lovely Tapered Legs Victorian puzzle A few surface dings/paint loss

A few surface dings/paint loss to top layer as evident and documented

and still with traces of his original paint animating his head and body

with lids on to keep it warm

) I have not figured out for certain what this would have been used for: grain measuring

And what attitude embodied in this Blanch (a name perfectly suited to her I'd say) with bows everywhere

My Latest Favorite Stool, 19th C. in Gray Over Mustard Paint with Lovely Tapered Legs Victorian puzzle A few surface dings/paint lossAnother week, another lovely old stool; I can't deal with furniture of any scale, but I can manage a stool, and they're my favorites, plus of course very useful as pedestals for non functional things. I purchased this one at Brimfield from a dealer from whom I covet most everything (also the source of the extra long antique whimsy chain this week.) It's the clean lines and elegantly tapering legs on this one that really do it for me, plus the old gray