Super Folky 1936 Folk Art Retablo on Tin with Figures, Candle, Deep Blue Ground inlaid wood music box I've found a few others

I've found a few others somewhat like it dating to around the beginning of the 20th century

PA and would be pretty confident that's where it originated

and local trades

Forty cards total

The clips are easily removed should one wish to take it apart (which I did for the ease of documenting) and also easy to to reassemble

Super Folky 1936 Folk Art Retablo on Tin with Figures, Candle, Deep Blue Ground inlaid wood music box I've found a few othersNear impossible to read the hand painted cursive text along the bottom of this one, though I did manage for decipher the year, 1936. But what a marvelously expressive painting, much better in person hard to capture the deep lapis colored ground and the creams and blacks of the figures simultaneously, but they're rich and bold and glow y all at once. For me, about as earnestly holy feeling as could be, centered around the single flaming candle held