Condense Factory Fire at Night, 1908 Real Photo Postcard tole painted box with flowers to my eye at least

to my eye at least lending a subtle tension

with the end of the bow trimmed like a ribbon and tucked into the weaving

12" x 18" and in overall good condition

Framed 11 3/8" x 13 3/4" x 2 1/2" deep

This is one of the most wonderful Kuna Mola I have seen--picked from among a large collection of them from an artist and gallerist who dealt in them

Condense Factory Fire at Night, 1908 Real Photo Postcard tole painted box with flowers to my eye at leastI believe the Condense Factory captured here on fire was in Tillsonburg, Ontario, Canada, and though I am not 100% sure I think may have produced condensed milk. In any case, quite a spectacular and haunting photograph, all the more so for the details captured, from the illuminated frame of the house like structure at right, what look perhaps to be picnic tables in the foreground, and what might be a shadowy figure at left. Plus the spark filled black