Pabla Rojas Thanks Our Lady of San Juan, Very Tender 1924 Ex Voto Retablo on Tin with Fantastic Surface antique bone ruler and the perfect soft green

and the perfect soft green bottom

I can't find another of these out there anywhere

There are stereoviews and then there are stereoviews--this is one of two early albumen photo stereoviews I'm listing this week of the gorgeous and special variety

transcending its toy-hood to enter the realm of pure sculpture

Pabla Rojas Thanks Our Lady of San Juan, Very Tender 1924 Ex Voto Retablo on Tin with Fantastic Surface antique bone ruler and the perfect soft greenI made a bit of effort to translate the text here, but couldn't quite piece it together what is clear is that expresses thanks to Our Lady of San Juan for answering the prayers of Pabla Rojas on May 11, 1924, and that it is a very lovely and tender one; look close, and you will see that the kneeling woman, with wonderfully beatific face, is holding in her very sweetly outlined hand a very sweetly detailed rosary with gold cross hanging. And what a