Pabla Rojas Thanks Our Lady of San Juan, Very Tender 1924 Ex Voto Retablo on Tin with Fantastic Surface dowel with the seal carved and

with the seal carved and polished to a very satisfying smoothness

On the inside cover Agnes Gilbert lists the 16 samples she carefully preserved and detailed for her Botany II course

which looks more soft black from above and more reddish (varnished) from the sides

in excellent  condition

more rustic whimsy I just listed that was the first I'd seen with interlocking movable parts

Pabla Rojas Thanks Our Lady of San Juan, Very Tender 1924 Ex Voto Retablo on Tin with Fantastic Surface dowel with the seal carved andI 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