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Description 
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.
Stereotype stool - Copyright Museum of the American Printing House for the Blind
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Stereograph operator's stool

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Last modified on: April 02, 2010