Fabulous Orange Painted Antique Primitive Wooden Stool platypus Johnston at Springfield Farm

Johnston at Springfield Farm

and a little cracking to the black lacquer on the underside

With some digging

This is about my favorite example of all I've seen

Wilson certainly succeeded in his mission--this donkey is an incredible walker

Fabulous Orange Painted Antique Primitive Wooden Stool platypus Johnston at Springfield FarmTalk about patina! This wonderful little wooden stool shows at least 150 years of love and several layers of paint below its current (perfect) orange, topped with a thick coat of varnish or shellac. All of this adds up to one of my very favorite finds of late, a fantastic pop of color, and the perfect display pedestal for all sorts of things though of course it's great as a stool, too! Industructible I think sturdy as could be, and with terrific old