Carved Folk Art Stone Bible with Sacred Heart (With Two Small Repairs) antique trick cards but also for the fact

but also for the fact that they somehow escaped the trash heap for me to rather miraculously to discover them buried in a pile at a flea market some 80 years later

with carved reamer and turned handle terminating in a great fat rounded end

and I certainly hope they got their boat built

This is a quintessential retablo depiction of the Virgin Mary

this piece is in very good condition

Carved Folk Art Stone Bible with Sacred Heart (With Two Small Repairs) antique trick cards but also for the factI keep an eye out but this is actually this first carved stone book I've found, and definitely meant to represent a bible, with sacred heart in high relief across the front. There is a finely carved border around the perimeter on both front and back as well as three rows of three lines on the spine, and what I assume are the initials of the carver, AD, at the bottom left corner of the heart, which kicks a bit in the that direction! I believe the super