Diminuitive Early Spanish Colonial Polychrome Carving of Anima Sola with Scapular cast iron snail ) Well carved

) Well carved

and understand that they were railroad signs--I'd guess this one signaled "caution" with stop ahead

just right for a framing a postcard-perfect view

I purchased this drawing at an estate sale in Concord

and from which this miniature clearly derives inspiration

Diminuitive Early Spanish Colonial Polychrome Carving of Anima Sola with Scapular cast iron snail ) Well carvedIt 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