Vintage camel saddle stool — anyone have more info?

Another one of my parent’s wonderful items in their home that has been here for 60ish years or so ... as long as I can remember. The size is 16w x 11d x 14h. Is this for a child or is it full size? From Egypt? The leather seat once had something raised in the leather but it has all worn off... The legs have really nice emblems on them...

 

Given the relief of Nefertiti, Egypt is a safe bet.

Debora

 

looks a lot like this one:
https://www.pamono.com/camel-saddle...mHA4p9PG4NFpm3va6e_epkw3MMkTe85xoCJtIQAvD_BwE

 

Thank you! It is very similar. I’m afraid we really abused this poor stool when we were kids. I wish I had asked more questions of my mom and dad...

 

I had asked more questions of my mom and dad...

a common refrain.....
my folks knew so much...that died with them.....
I'd like it if my kid asked me questions...... but alas..........

 

It is not too bad, and it will look much better after a bit of tlc.

Did you see they called it Brutalist? And the price....
Here is one in the Netherlands for 10 euro, but then just about every Dutch household used to have one in the 60s, so there are a lot here.
https://www.marktplaats.nl/a/huis-e...285449651fa109c354bbabe740c1b&previousPage=lr

 

Well, that’s interesting because my mom and dad were Dutch! Dad left in 1934 to work for KLM in Curaçao. Mom was born in Suriname (at the time a Dutch colony) then moved to Curacao where they met. The war intervened and Dad was drafted into the Netherlands Royal Air Force and sent to New York and then to the Royal Netherlands Flying School in Mississippi to train mechanics there. Sent to Australia to maintain aircraft flying in the Pacific theater and in May 1946, returned to New York to marry my mother. Rejoined KLM, was transferred to Anchorage, then Tokyo where he retired. I know this has absolutely nothing to do with this camel stool but since he didn’t live in Holland from 1934 on, I wonder why and how get got one of these stools. I wonder why they were so popular with the Dutch? We had such history with Indonesia but Egypt? Hmmmm... Just wondering.

 

Very interesting nonetheless.
Your father may have known my father-in-law. He joined the Netherlands Navy Air Force (Marine Luchtvaartdienst) in 1942, this was before there was a separate Air Force. He trained as a pilot in several places in the US and was posted in Broome, Western Australia, a day after the Japanese bombing of Dutch-Indonesian refugee ships in Broome. He also served in Darwin and was active as a pilot in the Pacific War. He even named his second son Arthur, after General MacArthur.

A general 60s thing, I think. We used to have 'kasbah' style shops here in the 60s, with a lot of North African things. It was probably the same in the US.

 

When my folks opened their 'Used Furniture & Antiques' shop in '71 here in Florida, one of the lots bought at auction included a number of similar camel saddle stools, recall that they sold well (my brother kept one of them for years).

~Cheryl

 

Yes, but the 16 added tacks in the Dutch version detract from the $170 US price at $10 per tack! Now that's brutal.

 

JPJ...we thank your Dad for his service !!!

 

I agree, it is a Brutalist ad.

 

I know we had a thread on these; but though camel-saddle is the correct name, they were not actually intended to be used for that purpose, but just for seating, sale to tourists, and such. They were modeled after the saddles made for use; but modified so as to be more useful as seating or footstools than as saddles. My parents had a couple, from the Middle East around 1960. If made for use, the seat would be shaped differently, and there would be a way to attach it to a camel, like so: