Curious Late 19th C. Walter A. Wood Lightening Artist Three Minute Souvenir Oil Painting porcelain plate but I also love more

but I also love more straightforwardly functional ones

with a couple of dark lines along the right edge

The yellow clay bottom points to it being from Ohio

I’m completely charmed by this vintage Japanese round lacquer Bento box with its hand-painted figure pulling a little boat

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Curious Late 19th C. Walter A. Wood Lightening Artist Three Minute Souvenir Oil Painting porcelain plate but I also love moreQuite a curious one! The printed card, to which a gray scale oil painting landscape is mounted, reads: "Genuine Oil Painting executed at the Fair in less than three minutes by our celebrated Lightning Artist in the same manner in which he paints them on our machines". And then on the reverse, visible due to the double sided frame, an engraving of the Walter A. Wood single apron binding harvester with steel bundle carrier in use harvesting a field of