Wonderful Folk Art Squirrel Doorstop in Gorgeously Alligatored Green Paint handmade milking stool with perhaps a tiny chip

with perhaps a tiny chip at the top corner of the blade

and to head out together on long walks through the countryside

this is an early 20th-century British watercolor of Wall Pennywort

--horsehair bristles

and numbered 36 from an edition of 95

Wonderful Folk Art Squirrel Doorstop in Gorgeously Alligatored Green Paint handmade milking stool with perhaps a tiny chipI don't think I've ever seen a better squirrel silhouette than this one, holding I assume an acorn in its paws, or one clad in a better coat of paint than this green, which has alligatored to total perfection. Definitely this is an early one as far as American folk art wooden doorstops go; based on the nails and paint and the monochrome, I would think 19th c. Really a beautiful thing. 7 1 2" t x 5 1 8" w x 7" d and in very good aged condition, stable