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Constructed with cut nails; rectangular top covered with brown leather tacked under overhang; leather is not original; stool with many layers of paint, last coat being brown; boot jack ends joined to straight apron under top; apron rails have curved cut ends.
footstools (stools)
leather
pine (wood)
Stool
Footstool
Footstool
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
8 1/2 x 8 7/8 (HxD) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.705
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