19th C Cricket Stool in Original Paint Joined by Wooden Nails antique quilt square 3 1/4" long when closed

3 1/4" long when closed

produced by McLoughlin Brothers of New York

This white porcelain glove mold

lifts to reveal a patterned fabric lining

19th C Cricket Stool in Original Paint Joined by Wooden Nails antique quilt square 3 1/4" long when closedI always have an eye out for great stools that would make great pedestals to arrange other things atop, and I think this is quite a special one, 19th c, in its original decorative paint, with wooden pegs joining legs to wide and top, holding completely tight and sturdy as can be. Im not sure whether the paint would technically be referred to as faux grain painting but it is of that ilk, a wonderful mix of red and black and brown and gray. To my eye