Much Used Old Pine Stool with Painterly Surface turned wooden handle and the bottom two similar

and the bottom two similar

Photos document the couple of spots where beading is lost or loose

with little chick emerging half-way from its "cosy home" to greet the little red-bowed cat with football

which I would guess date from the the 1940s or earlier

Much Used Old Pine Stool with Painterly Surface turned wooden handle and the bottom two similarI'm always looking for good old stools but am having a particular moment with them right now in addition to being the one type of furniture I can easily manage to ship (!), they're also useful things in an endless number of ways, including making great pedestals for other things, and they seem, as much as almost anything else, to wear their histories on their proverbial sleeves. This one has certainly had quite a life, which I might guess included