Thanks From Anacleto Perales, Hat in Hand: Well Weathered But Wonderful Old Mexican Folk Art Retablo modern home decor This wonderful little wooden stool

This wonderful little wooden stool shows at least 150 years of love and several layers of paint below its current (perfect) orange

but often less interested in the pages inside

with each letter of each name carefully carved in capital letters against stippled grounds

Houghton Marble (1867-1947)

Thanks From Anacleto Perales, Hat in Hand: Well Weathered But Wonderful Old Mexican Folk Art Retablo modern home decor This wonderful little wooden stoolSometimes things are better when they are pristine and sometimes they are better when they are beaten up, and this retablo on tin I think is all the more winning for having clearly lived a life as Anacieto Perales certainly did, in yellow pants here, hat in hand, giving his thanks to Santo Nio De Atocha. The block lettering filling nearly half the painting is excellent visually if hard to read as it fades away toward the left edge and bottom, but