Subasta Bidspirit | Dead hand

Dead hand - Dead hand of indeterminate age/20th century, replica of a human hand made of plastic, mounted as a diorama behind glass, as a talisman the hands and fingers of executed persons are regarded as a pagan symbol of a ”participation in this atonement by appropriation of some bodily part” and thus are said to possess auspicious and protective properties, dimensions 39 x 26 cm.