Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro folk art wood carving a prominent citizen of Moultonborough

a prominent citizen of Moultonborough

which tapers to a very tiny waist

and the incised signature makes me with think there can't have been many

made all the better by lots off scrapes and wear

so not much other than sand would fall through

Late 19th/Early 20th Century Gold Plated Silver Foil Italian Mask Ex Voto / Milagro folk art wood carving a prominent citizen of MoultonboroughSuch 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