2005.53.2

Stereotype stool

Four legged adjustable-height factory stool; glued-up round seat with rounded edge and contoured profile; four-armed black-enameled stamped steel seat frame screwed underneath seat, steel screw post fits into threaded four-armed fixture, each arm curves to socket which accepts a stool leg; turned wood legs taper at sockets, two large beads below socket, four small beads above lower stretcher; two sets of offset stretchers, one in middle, one just above feet; turned stretchers bulge slightly in middle and taper slightly as they approach mortises in the legs; twisted wire braces on lowest bead and highest bead, two crossed wires in lower position, single wire above.

H-23.125 W-13.5 D-13 inches

c. 1930

[unknown]

APH

Stool was used in the stereotyping department of APH at least as early as 1937, when it appears in an annual report being used by an operator on a plate duplicating stereograph. It was in the museum collection for several years before being accessioned in November 2005.

APH Collection, 2005.53