Much Loved Antique Scallop Edged Stool in Original Red Paint with Nice Repairs shaker hand mirror with no apparent bead loss

with no apparent bead loss

held together it looks to me by just a couple of nails at the top and then a few more nailed in from the underside of the base

with a great patina of stains and scuffs and paint spatters

they'd also make perfect little planters alone or lined up in a row

5 7/16” l

Much Loved Antique Scallop Edged Stool in Original Red Paint with Nice Repairs shaker hand mirror with no apparent bead lossTo me eye quite a charmer of an old primitive stool I guess I'd call a foot stool, though it could very well have been used for milking. Definitely it was much used, and much valued, with metal plates mending an old split from either side, and an extra piece of wood reinforcing it from below, cut at the corners to accommodate the legs. And with a ribbed texture to the underside of the top, lending the stool a scalloped edge on two sides. With a little