19th C. Gray-Green Primitive Stool With Great Lines, Fantastic Surface and Good For Everything us embossing co blocks with Walter's showing the most

with Walter's showing the most use--so perhaps it was Walter who made these

represents souls in purgatory who require the assistance of the both the living and the divine to ameliorate their sufferings

During his lifetime he codified the series of Froebel Gifts up through Gift 6

To me there is something so satisfying

There is wear to this box consistent with its age

19th C. Gray-Green Primitive Stool With Great Lines, Fantastic Surface and Good For Everything us embossing co blocks with Walter's showing the mostAmong my very favorite old stools I've had, and I've got a penchant for stools and have bought and sold a bunch. 19th century, great boxy form, hand forged iron nails, very sturdy, original paint which is a wonderfully aged gray green. And with a mysterious slat running across the top not a split, but a slit, perhaps from some earlier function of that board, but now making it feel like a slot for dropping love notes through! Everything I've set on