1903 Soulful Anima Sola Ex Voto Retablo unique basket This guy is the real

This guy is the real deal--a very early issue tin litho Lehmann Climbing Monkey

is a replacement for a more roughly carved original pin

in pencil down both his front and back

but everything in place is sturdy and stable and well attached and not especially fragile

1903 Soulful Anima Sola Ex Voto Retablo unique basket This guy is the realThe "Anima Sola" pictured on this 1903 ex voto retablo is about as existential feeling as they come while most representations of the Anima Sola show the figure (sometime male, sometime female) dramatically encircled in red flames, I find this stoic, soulful representation as poignant a depiction of being trapped literally chained in limbo as could be, and most definitely he seems to be suffering for collective sins. I've learned that praying to the