Marvelous 1850s Pennsylvania Folk Art Stool with Carved Stars in Old Green Paint (and family note attached) antique rose painting miraculously I just found this

miraculously I just found this set

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

I cannot authenticate the age or authenticity of this head

Sight: 3 3/8" x 3 1/16"

Marvelous 1850s Pennsylvania Folk Art Stool with Carved Stars in Old Green Paint (and family note attached) antique rose painting miraculously I just found thisI 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