1959 Wonderfully Naive Virgin of Guadaloupe Ex Voto Retablo on Tin farm tool and trimmed exactly to match

and trimmed exactly to match the edge

of which there are quite a wide (and sometimes wonderfully weird) variety

There is one of these of very similar form but not nearly paint as good selling on 1st Dibs for $350--a bit excessive I think

Approximately 5" in diameter x 2 3/4" tall

Some stains and a few bumps and dings around the edges

1959 Wonderfully Naive Virgin of Guadaloupe Ex Voto Retablo on Tin farm tool and trimmed exactly to matchThis is one of two marvelously naive mid 20th century ex voto retablos I purchased from a seller in California, quite similar in manner such that I might guess done by the same person, but with clearly different styles of writing at the bottoms so perhaps not, or perhaps the paintings were made for the subjects, who then painted the texts. Whatever the case, wonderful I think, with this super folky Virgin, feeling to me as holy as it gets, receiving