19th Century Primitive Pine Stool with Wonderful Pieced and Appliquéd Woolen Cover death at sea as I have found a

as I have found a very very similar one sold at auction by Pook & Pook

"get a load of that

Drawn in black ink (now kind of sepia toned) on an almost vellum-like paper (used by architects in the 19th c

where it would have attached

heavy weight cardboard covered in heavy weight paper

19th Century Primitive Pine Stool with Wonderful Pieced and Appliquéd Woolen Cover death at sea as I have found aThe pieced homespun woolen fabric with red applique on this 19th century pine stool made my heart race when I found it purchased from a dealer who pulled it out of an old estate in Concord, NH I believe. It is everything I love, and I love everything about it, with the textile making a very humble stool a very special one. And I do believe it has been on there for a very long time, secured with a mish mosh of hand forged iron nails, many of them