"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor but I'm not sure as

but I'm not  sure as there are really no punctures or losses along the top edges that I can discern

With nicely done ears and hand especially

including receiving letters from Franklin Roosevelt and Lady Bird Johnson

I don't know (through would love to know

Written on the flip side of the shell

"Las Cruz de Animas" Old Folk Art Retablo Painting on Tin #2 buddhist watercolor but I'm not sure asThis 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