Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro folk art wood carving which tapers to a very

which tapers to a very tiny waist

a prominent citizen of Moultonborough

perhaps to keep it from rattling

with some fading to the paint on one side and on the back

and I don't think I've ever seen a hand with such long and slender fingers

Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro folk art wood carving which tapers to a verySuch a beauty! I found this and the other milagro I'm listing at an estate sale in Saratoga, NY, where it lived in the collection of a peace corps worker and world traveller that, fittingly, included an abundance of carved masks. Late 19th very early 20th century and Italian, I believe, make of what looks like silver foil with a gold finish on the face of it. To my eye just a gorgeous thing, made all the more special by a signature on reverse