Primitive White Painted Red Elm Tiered Milking Stool silver toned 1 3/4" across at lip

1 3/4" across at lip

which I found at an antique store

the other black and white--and though I am offering them for sale separately

it would be drawings

though still latches

Primitive White Painted Red Elm Tiered Milking Stool silver toned 1 3/4" across at lipHad I not spent a couple of years working on a farm, I am not sure I would have known that this unusual tiered painted wood object (while also a remarkable piece of sculpture!) is in fact an old handmade milking stool. While we did not have cows to milk on the veggie farm where I lived and worked, a milking stool came in pretty handy for fitting between narrow aisles in our greenhouses and sitting upon for labor intensive picking, like green beans! Im