SOLD Vintage Mexican Folk Art Retablo, Miracle on Operating Table distressed metal sign or perhaps based on the

or perhaps based on the "Jewel Mill" that in the late 19th century was built on the foundation of John Pearson’s original fulling mill and around that time was operated by the Glen Mills Cereal Company

but I can at least make out "Millie" on one side

I love old school slates

She didn't know the origins of this stone and neither do I

as do the swirls of ink-drawn line detailing the lace covering her neck

SOLD Vintage Mexican Folk Art Retablo, Miracle on Operating Table distressed metal sign or perhaps based on theYou know I'm always on the hunt for Mexican folk art retablos, the more unusual the better, so of course jumped on this operating table scene, thanking Our Lady of San Juan de los Lagos, floating over the scene at right, for having saved our subject while she was in the hands of the doctor. The manner of the painting reminds me of WW2 era medical instruction manuals (i. e. our subject looks a bit as if she might be a CPR demonstration dummy, and the