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Antique Civil War era veteran's handmade pine wood, boot jack end, square nailed and skirted cricket style footstool or "cricket" with it's original old brown paint with red, white and blue paint decoration and wording reading "SOLDIERS HOME" on each side, paint decoration on the end sides, old worn plain pine top with worn edges, old wear, damage, repairs and alterations to the whole and retaining it's original old dry and usage worn surface, as found. Maine , 1860's. Guaranteed old and original; this is not a fake or reproduction. Actual weight 2 ¼ lbs. 15 1/4" long by 7 3/4" wide by 6 3/4" tall. Antique Civil War era veteran's handmade pine wood, boot jack end, square nailed and skirted cricket style footstool or "cricket" with it's original old brown paint with red, white and blue paint decoration and wording reading "SOLDIERS HOME" on each side, paint decoration on the end sides, old worn plain pine top with worn edges, old wear, damage, repairs and alterations to the whole and retaining it's original old dry and usage worn surface, as found. We continue listing primitives we found in the woodshed, an attached building that had become a catch-all storage repository for âe¦ Maine farm primitivesâe¦ beginning in the 1920's. Obsolete wood and farm wooden items were put in the shed with the firewood to, evidently, be burned. They never burned them and although t was a lot of "scrap wood", some of the things we found are pretty nice. Hoped we'd run out of the woodshed found listings? We have not nor are we near exhausting the listing from this estate. Thank you for your continuing interest. When we found this it got everyone buzzing and pretty much still buzzing. The short version is all feel this is a local community Civil War veteran's home foot stool made right at the end of the war when Maine men returned in plenty and in bad shape, unable to support themselves and with no place to live. Communities quickly formed "homes" for them w they truly lived out their days. They became classic and nostalgic local characters of themselves and as a whole community body. Marching in the annual parades and well known to loaf out in front of their "home" even going so far as whistling at the ladiesâe¦ t are many scattered references to them in New England literature. For this cataloger, whose grand mother was a nurse attending these homes prior to WW I in Maine and having grown up with her old tales and photographs of her with the old men in uniformâe¦ I have known about these "homes" all my life even though they'd pretty much died out by the time I was born. This stool is anâe¦ original paint decorated surfaceâe¦ relicâe¦ from the community action of forming a "home" for these men. Although it's had a rough life including even the family of this estate considering it to be too far goneâe¦ and tossing it on the burn pile in the woodshedâe¦ we have saved it and âe¦IT IS GREAT. T is no question about it being the real thing with it's original old surface. It was made locally in the community as a genuine & sincere expression of the community for the Civil War veteran. It must have been one of perhaps a matching dozen, all glowing with their then shiny painted surface, lined up at the home. Hard usage, hard times, the home closing down and the contents scattered, this becomes a remarkable and rare survival ofâe¦ the American War Between the States; the American Civil War. It is also a pleasing old paint decorated country stool. Very good as found condition considering it's full history but technically a rough case we describe in detail. All wood and all surfaces are original. All wood is in it's right and original place. The whole stool has been partially taken apart and repaired once and "tightened up" at a later date. The old repair crisis, circa 1870's, was one boot jack end breaking out, probably while someone was standing on the cricket, and this side being put back in place so it is reversed and the paint decoration is on the inner - under side of the stool that alsoâe¦ hides... 
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