"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor and a bit of loss

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

Written on the flip side of the shell

With nicely done ears and hand especially

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

11 1/2" x 9" in very good condition

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor and a bit of lossThis 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