19th c. Polychromed Carved Wooden Santo c.1800-1850 Flags The black metal focus wheel

The black metal focus wheel works well and the optics are in good working order

Pennsylvania by John Hubley and produced hand painted cast-iron toys and household objects such as doorstops

The cast iron ring underneath the bottom of the chair has a portion cracked off but this does not affect the mechanism or movement in any way

wax models are no longer used and this is most particularly the case for wax anatomical models which used to be the pride of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century natural history cabinets and medical museums

rope pulley system and double wooden trays

19th c. Polychromed Carved Wooden Santo c.1800-1850 Flags The black metal focus wheelABOUT A polychromed carved wooden Santo from the first half of the 19th century. Spanish colonial school from the Philippines. An archangel, possibly Uriel, St. Raphael or St. Vincent Ferrer. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c. 1800 1850. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Carved, Painted Wood. CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use. Minor structural damage. DIMENSIONS H 25 in. W 12 in. D 7 in. HISTORY Unknown.