The banner scrolling across this reads "The Morning Star", and I have to guess it was part of a stove (there is a sort of hook at bottom center of the back side that perhaps latched to the stove and this piece opened out to allow for emptying ashes?). I have found mention of a Morning Star Stove Manufacturing Company established in 1918 in Grand Rapids Michigan, so perhaps Morning Star is the name of the stove, though I might have guessed this was was earlier than that. In an event, though not especially easy to photograph well, I think it's a really beautiful thing, with a great form and surface, featuring the raised image of one big star at center encircled with light rays on and through which cloth is draped, and then two smaller stars at either side below the scrolling banner. Great on the mantle, or wall, or over the stove, or wherever.
12 3/4" w x 9 1/8" t x 3/4" d. Definitely this piece served a function, was used and shows age, with surface variation in color now from brown to black, which I really like. Structurally it is in very good shape, super solid and sound and stable. Some detail photos make color appear lighter than it is.
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