"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor and a beautiful long and

and a beautiful long and lanky monkey he is

with the only information on it is a very faintly handwritten "cardinal

but I'm not  sure as there are really no punctures or losses along the top edges that I can discern

and a bit of loss to the black of the numbers on a few of them

I never pass by these old bevelled glass hand mirrors when I find them--they're great hung on all the wall

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor and a beautiful long andThis is the second of two retablos I recently purchased from a dealer in Canada, both straight from a German collector, who also collected antique Russian Eastern Orthodox icons. This and the other retablo (listed and sold last week) both depict Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of anima sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory, requiring the prayers of the