Much Loved Antique Scallop Edged Stool in Original Red Paint with Nice Repairs russian toy Weird and fun

Weird and fun

Well worn but still fantastic looking

And then her monogram

What  a brilliantly resourceful--and aesthetically just right--means of creating a frame for this small photo portrait of a young boy

Much Loved Antique Scallop Edged Stool in Original Red Paint with Nice Repairs russian toy Weird and funTo me eye quite a charmer of an old primitive stool I guess I'd call a foot stool, though it could very well have been used for milking. Definitely it was much used, and much valued, with metal plates mending an old split from either side, and an extra piece of wood reinforcing it from below, cut at the corners to accommodate the legs. And with a ribbed texture to the underside of the top, lending the stool a scalloped edge on two sides. With a little