Painted Wooden Folk Art Wood Duck in Excellent Palette fishing decoy This wonderful little wooden stool

This wonderful little wooden stool shows at least 150 years of love and several layers of paint below its current (perfect) orange

and also a couple with curiously futuristic looking/ late 1970s-esque sans serif lettering)

productive life

short vertical tear--about parallel to the dog's eye

clearly drawn by her skates many times over

Painted Wooden Folk Art Wood Duck in Excellent Palette fishing decoy This wonderful little wooden stoolNot an especially old one, but I couldnt resist it for the determined effort of its maker to fully honor the fantastic patterns of the wood duck in a most excellent palette. It is signed Paul E. Bickford of Southhampton NH on the underside of the base, indicating, I assume, that its maker was pretty pleased with their efforts, too. Theres a repaired and painted over split on the yellow of the legs; I might guess this was made in two pieces to begin