Charming 19th C. Turned Leg Cricket Stool with Surprise Bird Silhouette make do been box or just pin it up

or just pin it up

the book was first published in 1952

but appear never to have been put to use

I believe this would have been a shaving mirror

I just find these old glass watch crystals pretty things

Charming 19th C. Turned Leg Cricket Stool with Surprise Bird Silhouette make do been box or just pin it upThe form of this stool, combined with its red paint, drew me to it, but then I noticed the subtle outline of a bird on the top and was completely sold. I'm not quite sure if the bird was inlaid or just incised very finely and then painted stained a slightly stronger red but of it feels now like this happy surprise, as if placed there just for the delight of the user. And then around the perimeter top edge of the stool is a pattern painted in gold I