Overhanging rectangular top nailed boot jack; ends with ogee arch cutout forming legs; ends narrower at waist and flaring at top and at foot; straight apron nailed at angle to conform to waist of leg end; painted black underneath top; stripped on all visible part; one leg end is half replaced having been cut at point of arch; what appear to be original feet are beveled on inside of ogee arch.
stools (seating furniture)
painting (coating)
pine (wood)
pine (wood)
Pine
Painted
STOOL
Original to Sayward-Wheeler House (York Harbor, Me.),
Unknown
7 x 8.375 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of the heirs of Elizabeth Cheever Wheeler
1977.760
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