VERY FINE AND RARE FOLDING HORSE CHESTNUT CAMP STOOL, HOSEA HAYDEN (1820-1897), UNION COUNTY, INDIANA, 1894

VERY FINE AND RARE FOLDING HORSE CHESTNUT CAMP STOOL, HOSEA HAYDEN (1820-1897), UNION COUNTY, INDIANA, 1894

Inscribed with art work, poems and philosophical sayings. Dated May, A D 1894.

Inscribed on reverse of back support: Question. dose indivdual mind exist after the individual body is decomposed. If the answer be yes or no, then give evidence why

Crest rail: Heuueii, Grover le

Seat: Cupids darts hits the majority, sign reads Seacrofs 10 miles

Underside of seat: Pa Pa, mother, quick, / on a limb, Spots, / up a tree. Pa, quick. / mother mebby be / killed. hurry Pa Pa.

Other side of underside of seat: Be-jabers / I have / ye now

Rear leg: Freedom is heaven, Heaven is made by doing unto others as you would have them do unto you / Tyrany is hell. Hell is made by doing unto others as you would not permit others to do unto you.

Proper left leg: Henry Burgh inaugurated the Humane Society / Hoping to obliterate torture of animals / Burg was the greatest phylanthropist of the day in which he lived.

Back leg: Seeking knowledge and Native american

Back support: Amongst many isms panthe-ism most logical

Height 26 ¼ in. by Width 9 ¾ in. by Depth 18 in.