Lovely Old Pine Stool with History of Reinforcements decorative brush and the house is large

and the house is large enough to hold a small fortune

includes rules for a whole series of domino variations

a drawer that pulls out

Some minor surface cracking to the leather (detail photos shot at 2-3x maginification) and two very small eye shaped holes in the outer layer of the leather (not going all the way through) near the heel which I believe likely once housed additional small bone inlays

but I sure like his name

Lovely Old Pine Stool with History of Reinforcements decorative brush and the house is largeAnother great old perfect pedestal sort of cricket stool, because they are such lovely and useful things. I really love how the history of this one 19th c. and made of pine I believe unfolds across its surface as a series of repairs and reinforcements, testifying to its having been a much used and valued possession. There are a range of different nails, some of them showing carved plugs; a mend to the front of one leg (quite an old repair), and two