Wonderful Small Stone Carved Kneeling Figure with Raised Arm Romany Spartan Ceramics and there is a nail

and there is a nail that has been replaced on the joint of one knee

For reference

which has lead me nowhere

but clearly they knew how to paint

No notable tears

Wonderful Small Stone Carved Kneeling Figure with Raised Arm Romany Spartan Ceramics and there is a nailAmong my favorite little finds ever, this curious small stone carved figure, I think perhaps meant to represent an athlete of some sort but I'm not entirely sure. He appears to have a carved signature on the underside, which looks to read DWP and perhaps 95, which I have to think, if a year, would be 1895. I think his face is terrific, and for me his posture embodies a sense of readiness and forward looking, with the right had about to push off from