Request to identify stools

[hap97]

I found one of these stools and decided it must have been a unique one off item.
However, I now have 5 of them, all the same.
Can anyone please identify their original use?

Thanks
Hilton

[TermiMonster]

They look like boot polish stools to me.
You store all your polish and brushes in them, and put your foot on the stool to polish the shoe.
....or maybe something else????
(often made in school woodwork shops in de olde daize...)
TM

[Christos]

I also remember one of these with the hole in the top. Can not remember where or what happen to it. Could have been at high school some 30 odd years ago.

[hap97]

Thanks for your replies.
The bottom hole is too small for any storage options, hence the dilemma.
They seem to be too well made for school projects and all are exactly the same.
Maybe TAFE cabinetmaking projects?
Hilton

[Xanthorrhoeas]

Thanks for your replies.
The bottom hole is too small for any storage options, hence the dilemma.
They seem to be too well made for school projects and all are exactly the same.
Maybe TAFE cabinetmaking projects?
Hilton

My suggestion, especially given your location, is that they may have been used in a farrier's workshop. They look like a typical workshop stool. 40 years ago I knew an old fellow who taught me how to do all sorts of repair jobs to motor cars, electrics, electronics etc. He always had a stool something like one of these handy, either to keep tools at a reachable height or to sit on. His were made in a University workshop, but yours look like a TAFE job or carpenter build perhaps, although the simple construction would argue against a TAFE woodwork project as that would have involved dovetails and other good joints.
David

[Sawdust Maker]

piano stool?

[ubeaut]

As a kid back in the 50's I seem to recall a man (probably only a lad 15 or 16 years old, everyone looks old when you're a little kid) in Singleton, (NSW) with a box like that. He was a shoe shine man/boy. Sat on the stool and polished your shoes one at a time whilst you stood with one foot on the front of the box. I think the hole in the side was a hand hold for carrying the box and it's polishing contents around.

Just a recollection from a 5 to 7 year old me. Saw him in the main street and outside the station, I reckon he used to go round the pubs shining shoes, in those days Singleton had more pubs than almost any other town in Australia. I think my grandfather had been thrown out of most if not all of them.

Cheers - Neil

PS the ones in the pic look a little too good to have been used for bootblacking.

[gyropilot]

I made a few of those in high school, many moons ago. Standard bench/stool/utility and we all got marked on them....Aaaahhh, the good old days - not !

Geoff