New Favorite Stool in Red Paint with Field of Iron Nails Underneath hands With quite a rich patina

With quite a rich patina

MA collection as the painted tintype I just listed (and the other photos I've listed today too)

though maybe with a bit of a Degas dancer aspect to her spread arms too

1957-1998) from Oldsmar

This gorgeous box is a fine example of Yosegi-zaiku

New Favorite Stool in Red Paint with Field of Iron Nails Underneath hands With quite a rich patinaSo much love for this one, which I found at what is quite a good antiques show in Lititz, PA and which I think slipped under the radar (bought from a dealer focused on other things, who had it on the floor in an inconspicuous spot); as I carried it out, I had several people comment in envy! Wonderfully irregular long and low form with rounded corners, fantastic wear to the red paint, and then this terrific, inexplicable surprise of hundreds of old