Beautiful Much Used Primitive Bench with Old Yellow and White Paint tin train platform that made the best of

that made the best of the best

19th century American

The striking contrast between the wood of the matchsticks and their charcoal tips

This carved whimsy is quite the opposite of refined

with some remnant of black construction paper on reverse to which it was once glued

Beautiful Much Used Primitive Bench with Old Yellow and White Paint tin train platform that made the best ofTo my eye just a gorgeous object, wonderfully painterly and sculptural both. Nothing about it is quite square or straight, but clearly it did the job of a stool for many many years. Fat old hand forged nails all over including an exuberant big cluster of them on one short side, and a combination of original yellow paint on the interior and lower parts, and white on the top and sides. A great pedestal now for a sculpture or vessel or found object or