Sweet, Much Loved Antique Three Legged Stool with Yellow Painted Legs and Piecework Cover cut wood cranes And just a festive feeling

And just a festive feeling thing to wave around--including for summoning people to the dinner table

Amplifying this is the interesting loss just to the face of the newspaper print woman inside at dead center of the domed lid--feels like a story to me

though I'm not entirely sure how this shadow of a letter came to be

very 1970s

Sweet, Much Loved Antique Three Legged Stool with Yellow Painted Legs and Piecework Cover cut wood cranes And just a festive feelingI found this stool at a show in New Hampshire, and while it shows a few old tears to the piecework top, and the top is not quite evenly stretched tacked around the sides, I really love everything about it, very much down to those three stick legs in the best old mustard yellow paint. A cheerful, very homey feeling thing, which also makes a pedestal pedestal, for an arrangement of colorful old folk pin cushions and pin balls, say! 12" d x 7" t. A few