Beautiful Much Used Primitive Bench with Old Yellow and White Paint fused glass and then to detect when

and then to detect when a fish strikes—which this one would render a very exciting and dramatic event

with what looks like Liu—which I have not been able to trace

bright shiny yellow

I think the design of this 1914 two-sided cardboard "Pocket Signal Disk" is just terrific

It's maker - who signed it J

Beautiful Much Used Primitive Bench with Old Yellow and White Paint fused glass and then to detect whenTo my eye just a gorgeous object, wonderfully painterly and sculptural both. Nothing about it is quite square or straight, but clearly it did the job of a stool for many many years. Fat old hand forged nails all over including an exuberant big cluster of them on one short side, and a combination of original yellow paint on the interior and lower parts, and white on the top and sides. A great pedestal now for a sculpture or vessel or found object or