Thanks From Anacleto Perales, Hat in Hand: Well Weathered But Wonderful Old Mexican Folk Art Retablo teaching reading feeling a bit like an

feeling a bit like an arrow or an old school rocket about to launch and which also seems it could function as a cookie cutter should one wish to put it to use

and which makes it even better I think

There is a dealer in a group shop I frequent who has been unloading these old Milton Bradley Froebel blocks one box at a time

but I think they make a pretty great pair as is

So when I spotted this and one other of her prints at an antiques shop recently

Thanks From Anacleto Perales, Hat in Hand: Well Weathered But Wonderful Old Mexican Folk Art Retablo teaching reading feeling a bit like anSometimes things are better when they are pristine and sometimes they are better when they are beaten up, and this retablo on tin I think is all the more winning for having clearly lived a life as Anacieto Perales certainly did, in yellow pants here, hat in hand, giving his thanks to Santo Nio De Atocha. The block lettering filling nearly half the painting is excellent visually if hard to read as it fades away toward the left edge and bottom, but