Yellow Stripes on Best Blue, Darling 19th Century American Primitive Foot Stool sailors return but first the box

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and zig zag patterns across every surface

Over time I've found a few of these late 19th/early 20th century handmade clowns

Two doors on the interior that open upward would conceal the spools and whatever other sewing notions were held inside

Yellow Stripes on Best Blue, Darling 19th Century American Primitive Foot Stool sailors return but first the boxMy quest for excellent old foot stools never ends the only scale of furniture I can handle, but happily my favorite form, and of course ever useful, including as pedestals for other things. I found this antique lovely in Lancaster County, PA to my great delight perfect scale, best old blue paint, and great boxy lines, which the yellow paint wonderfully amplifies and enhances. Mortise and tenon construction, with four yellow X's painted at the top of