Wonderful All Original Paint Decorated c. 1840s Primitive Stool, Pittsfield, NH (Great Underside, Too) make do object I didn't know its function

I didn't know its function when I found it

) Certainly all done by the same person

which I would hand vertically on the wall from one nail at the top

There are several versions of this "Little Peasant Girl" --including a plaster model now in the collection of the Met

University of Delaware

Wonderful All Original Paint Decorated c. 1840s Primitive Stool, Pittsfield, NH (Great Underside, Too) make do object I didn't know its functionWhen I am out and about I swear I pick up pretty much every stool I see (often having to remove a pile of other things that have been set atop it), 95 percent of the time returning it back to its spot and stacking whatever pile back on top of it. I had to travel to a couple hundred miles to find this one, and two others listed today, but they are, to my eye, really good ones. This one 1840s or so, and with those red painted stripes marching across the