Thanks From Anacleto Perales, Hat in Hand: Well Weathered But Wonderful Old Mexican Folk Art Retablo summer winter Super rich patina

Super rich patina

with red and blue compass style star top center flanked by white flowers and fruits with graceful leaves all around

I think perhaps they might be fairly recently deceased

As early a French secret compartment book box as I've come across--1752

it has a terrific

Thanks From Anacleto Perales, Hat in Hand: Well Weathered But Wonderful Old Mexican Folk Art Retablo summer winter Super rich patinaSometimes 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