Lovely 19th C. Wooden Cricket Stool with Scalloped Sides portrait of young black man which would originally have housed

which would originally have housed a combination of undivided cubes and others divided in halves or quarters

but while torn and frayed near the bottom

of Seattle's Space Needle

This wooden one I love for being just what it is and needs to be- just three pieces of wood and a whole bunch of nails

Lovely 19th C. Wooden Cricket Stool with Scalloped Sides portrait of young black man which would originally have housedI've forever got an eye out for great old stools, which I think make the best pedestals for arranging other things atop, and lately all I want to do is arrange things in relation to other things! This one I found in New Hampshire (almost into Vermont), and is many times better in person, with graceful form and great proportions, old iron nails, and just the very very subtlest hint of a blue tinge to the stained painted surface. 19th century I'm sure,