"The Morning Star" Old Cast Iron Piece, Presumed from Antique Stove shinoware Great structural condition

Great structural condition

A little dryness to the wood

The drawings are at turns wonderfully simple and marvelously specific (those popcorn people

but with the first name painted over in black so only the last name

is that is it Civil War era

"The Morning Star" Old Cast Iron Piece, Presumed from Antique Stove shinoware Great structural conditionThe 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