"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 box of marbles Approximately 4

Approximately 4

printed with every other page blank

and a split in the wood on the front back foot

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"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 box of marbles Approximately 4This 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