Carved Folk Art Stone Bible with Sacred Heart (With Two Small Repairs) antique trick cards This is a quintessential retablo

This is a quintessential retablo depiction of the Virgin Mary

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

" so perhaps the latter

This fun and wonderful thing is a hand-written obituary from 1889

8 1/4" t x 7" w x 1/2" thick

Carved Folk Art Stone Bible with Sacred Heart (With Two Small Repairs) antique trick cards This is a quintessential retabloI 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