Beautiful Much Used Primitive Bench with Old Yellow and White Paint tin train platform which look like playing cards

which look like playing cards as we know them

just lovely and lovingly made from heads to toes

with a little wear and aging to the paint

definitely it has a good amount of age

This carved whimsy is quite the opposite of refined

Beautiful Much Used Primitive Bench with Old Yellow and White Paint tin train platform which look like playing cardsTo my eye just a gorgeous object, wonderfully painterly and sculptural both. Nothing about it is quite square or straight, but clearly it did the job of a stool for many many years. Fat old hand forged nails all over including an exuberant big cluster of them on one short side, and a combination of original yellow paint on the interior and lower parts, and white on the top and sides. A great pedestal now for a sculpture or vessel or found object or