Diminuitive Early Spanish Colonial Polychrome Carving of Anima Sola with Scapular vase with glass tube There is what looks like

There is what looks like an "A" carved into the underside of one paw

most of which went to auction

Certainly this old guy once sat on a sulky behind a horse as part of a fine antique weathervane

the hardwood gorgeous (lignum vitae

" Really a great piece

Diminuitive Early Spanish Colonial Polychrome Carving of Anima Sola with Scapular vase with glass tube There is what looks likeIt seems quite right that this Spanish Colonial Anima Sola looks as if he's endured quite a lot a lonely soul stuck in purgatory, flames rising from below. With long hair down the back I assume female, and, unusual, from what I can tell, for wearing a scapular, which apparently was a practice directed by Our Lady of Mount Carmel, who instructed that those wearing a blessed brown scapular at the time of death would not suffer long, but rather would be