An old antique flue cover. Discovered in foreclosure property. Collectible?

Barbara does her homework.  She is always looking for something pleasant.  I take it that this wheat field was a popular scene used.  I wonder if a different scene was offered each year or maybe some company's gave them as promotionals?  Surely, they still make them today and offer them at farm service or something like that.  People do still use wood stoves. 

Well, I am surprised. 

I think every old house we ever purchased had at least one and sometime several of these little treasures.  I just thought they were common place.  I always wondered if they only put them in after they took out the wood stove completely or if they took the wood stoves outside to make more room in the summer months.  I know granny did her canning outside but she had like an outdoor kitchen (back before this popular wave of outdoor kitchens).  She used it to keep from heating up the house in the summertime.  She didn't take her wood stove out of the house.  I just wondered if others did that didn't have an outdoor kitchen?  

My husband should know a little bit about cooking on woodstoves.  He was the oldest grandchild and helped granny with her cooking.  She was just as likely to put something on the stove and go run the fences on the back 40.  If you wanted something that wasn't burned up you had better learn not just to watch it but move it around...haha...he learned well...he's a GREAT cook!  Just wish we had her old wood stove!

I have returned.  Our family early on had a stove for heating in the winter that daddy took down in the summer.  It didn't heat with wood, so what?  kerosene?  I have NO IDEA.   I'm sure our flu was covered but I have no memory of a pretty picture.  This would have been the Arch Street house, before major rehabbing.