Found this week at a favorite antique store in Maine, and I paid fairly for it, but it's among my very favorite stools I've come across, in this best old bittersweet paint, and I sure do love a very old and much loved American stool. Photos tell the story as well as I can, but I will say its many times more beautiful and richly presence-full in person. Wonderful.

10 1/2" x 6 5/16" x 6 1/4" t. Late 18th/early 19th c. I believe. Sturdy and steady sound, a gorgeous pedestal for other things but I think one could very safely sit or stand on it too.