In Bed, with Santiago Matamoro (St. James the Moor Slayer), Antique Folk Art Retablo on Tin 1827 and many years of happy

and many years of happy service in it yet

into which two dots for eyes were carved

still very vivid and just really wonderful

Based on a few others I have found out there in the same vein (including a few in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum) I believe 1850-1900 fraternal

In Bed, with Santiago Matamoro (St. James the Moor Slayer), Antique Folk Art Retablo on Tin 1827 and many years of happyAs you know by now, I've always got an eye out for old retablos, good in so many different ways, this one purchased from a seller in California and which really won me for the wonderful handling of the architecture of the space our bed ridden man inhabits; that perspectively rendered striped ceiling and bricked floor totally do it for me. And then the appearance of Santiago Matamomo (St. James the Moor Slayer), who I don't see too often! (Santiago