Marvelous 1850s Pennsylvania Folk Art Stool with Carved Stars in Old Green Paint (and family note attached) antique rose painting each featuring a couple--this one

each featuring a couple--this one skiing

A great learning game for the kids or a perfect happy hour diversion

which seems a bit right

and I just found it all these  eyes and ears and noses and mouths together pretty striking

Marvelous 1850s Pennsylvania Folk Art Stool with Carved Stars in Old Green Paint (and family note attached) antique rose painting each featuring a couple--this oneI do believe my favorite stool I've ever had, and stools are one of my very favorite things. I purchased this one from Stephen Corrigan (Stephen Douglas antiques), from whom I have purchased many of my very favorite things. Those stars! one deeply carved inside of a circle at either end and then a third larger, spindly one at center and then this incredible green painted surface, perhaps sponged, I don't even know how to describe it but it's