Wonderfully Naive Ex Voto Retablo #2: Plane Crash! vintage nyta I always look at old

I always look at old branding irons when I come across them

The bowl is in excellent condition and measures 5 3/4" across at widest diameter x 3 7/8" tall

and the whole thing is quite a pleasure to use

including these great polka dotted waist-bands on their red and blue shorts

Its body is an old turned wooden post of some sort

Wonderfully Naive Ex Voto Retablo #2: Plane Crash! vintage nyta I always look at oldThis is the second 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. While the other was simply thanking the Virgin for her general goodness of late, this one, offered in