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Swivel piano stool. Round wooden swivel seat with reed border upholstered in red velvet, tripod wooden base with turned center post and three s-curve shaped legs, nipple shaped finial at bottom.
music stools
Seat, Music
Stool, Music
Stool, Piano
Stool, Piano
This piano stool was inherited by the donor in 2006. He believes that his brother purchased the stool in either Maine or New Hampshire around 1977. He thinks that his brother used the stool with either a cottage organ or piano. The wooden base has been refinished, but the top retains its original buttons and red velvet upholstery. Joshua Briggs manufactured piano chairs and stools in Peterborough, New Hampshire from the 1860s until the 1880s.
"JOSHUA BRIGGS / MANUFACTURER OF / BRIGGS' ADJUSTABLE PIANO CHAIR AND STOOLS / (PATENTED.) / FACTORY AND OFFICE AT PETERBORO', N.H. U.S.A. / To put screw styles together. / Remove screw from pillar, place flat place on screw to correspond / with flat place in cap, and drive firmly together with a hammer, on / end of screw." (Paper label)
3319
Briggs, Joshua (Maker)
Peterborough, NH (origin)
20 1/2 x 15 (HxW), 12 1/2 (diameter) (inches)
Gift of Christopher P. Monkhouse
2008.8
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