Wonderful Old Iron Milking Stool with Star Cutout and Fantastic Surface pennsylvania folk art watercolor lithographed and hand-colored booklet (made

lithographed and hand-colored booklet (made of six sheets glued together horizontally and folded

Charles Rudy (b

certainly part of a once larger set

with these beautifully bold hand-painted black capital letters against white painted ground

Wonderful Old Iron Milking Stool with Star Cutout and Fantastic Surface pennsylvania folk art watercolor lithographed and hand-colored booklet (madeA charmer of an old milking stool, very early 20th century I believe, the form of which is perfectly suited for milking indeed, with a bit of a pitch to the seat, allowing one to get right up under those udders! But of course what sold me is the spectacular surface, white paint on iron, which has aged to yield a pattern reminding one quite a bit of a black and white speckled cow:) And then this charming star cut out on the little shelf below, making