1968 Prison Cell Ex Voto Retablo, Thanks to San Juditas Tadeo (Jude the Apostle) hand-formed tea bowl I especially love the gesture

I especially love the gesture of the figure with unrolled scroll before him

1 11/16" t x 7/8" wide and deep and in good condition

is patterned silver wallpaper or wrapping paper on the back wall (the pattern on the paper makes me think more 1940s or so

The sides of the vase are finished with two large circular ash ring handles which are bound with ash splints in the "Penobscot star" pattern

(I had a great friend in college who chose her brand of cigarettes by the strength and potential connotations of their names

1968 Prison Cell Ex Voto Retablo, Thanks to San Juditas Tadeo (Jude the Apostle) hand-formed tea bowl I especially love the gestureSuch a good one, painted in 1968 by a Melchor Garcia, who depicts his visitation by San Juditas Tadeo (Saint Jude) in his prison cell prior to his release, for which he gives thanks in the text below. (Very roughly: "Thank you for granting freedom. I was arrested for taking money from the lottery ticket account that I had sold. But you well know that I grabbed it to feed my children, because I have not been blessed myself. And today my employer found