@paul777,
I do some picking now and again. Im somewhat into "brown goods" (furniture and painted cabinets)
Milking stools are usually always squat because youd need to be just about udder high and a foot stool is a bit too high for a maiden.
We have Pa Dutch milking stools and there is a museum collection at the Pa Farm Museum in Landis Valley (near Lancaster Pa) and another small collection in the WPhrata Cloisters (a pietist monastery of the 1700s through the mid 19th century)