Vintage Presumed Saul Steinberg Newspaper/Publication Image in Period Frame painted face At the center of the

At the center of the book is a fold out fabric page with handwritten Japanese text

with no chips or cracks or damage of any sort that I can see

This old painting just made me laugh when I saw it--not just for the pipe this little boy (I assume) is smoking

and the scalloped green velvet top

Vintage Presumed Saul Steinberg Newspaper/Publication Image in Period Frame painted face At the center of theSorry for the photos; too much glare, so I shot most having removed the image from the frame. This one is a bit of a mystery, but I'm pretty certain it is a Saul Steinberg image, with his faces drawn on a photograph of standing lamps lined up next to a bus stop sign. The image here is on newsprint type paper, so I have to think clipped from somewhere and framed, and it looks to me like both date to the 1940s or so and indeed it seems quite in keeping