Fabulous Orange Painted Antique Primitive Wooden Stool platypus and a little cracking to

and a little cracking to the black lacquer on the underside

and energetically stippled all over spots

This is about my favorite example of all I've seen

I purchased this old brass boot at an estate sale at the family home of the former Plant Engineer at The United Shoe Machinery Company in Beverly

and local trades

Fabulous Orange Painted Antique Primitive Wooden Stool platypus and a little cracking toTalk about patina! This wonderful little wooden stool shows at least 150 years of love and several layers of paint below its current (perfect) orange, topped with a thick coat of varnish or shellac. All of this adds up to one of my very favorite finds of late, a fantastic pop of color, and the perfect display pedestal for all sorts of things though of course it's great as a stool, too! Industructible I think sturdy as could be, and with terrific old