Ultra Folky Antique "Las Cruz de Animas" Retablo Painting on Tin funny card containing 48 pages of drawings

containing 48 pages of drawings (filling entire pages)

Feels a bit lonely and forlorn to me

I'm always admiring these old German squeaker toys

To me the carving of her hair and face in profile gives her the feel of an early (c

Ultra Folky Antique "Las Cruz de Animas" Retablo Painting on Tin funny card containing 48 pages of drawingsThis to my sensibilities is a dream of a retablo, a very folky depiction of Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of animas sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory requiring the prayers of the living as well as the assistance of divine to release them to heaven. And this depiction is packed with both all of the (very excellent) usual symbols and then some, as