Victory talisman a.k.a. Espiritu Santo. This was brought to me in 2014 by an antique dealer whom I never saw again. He was foster father to a boy whose parents encouraged him to hang out in my house to study painting and hopefully get rid of his vices. 

I'm keeping this talisman in memory of JohnJohn, Lani, Teddy, Dalton, Susan, Bong, Opring, and all the pleasant times I shared with them in the antique shop I frequented in Ermita before I retired from the U.S. Embassy..

It is one of the few, Philippine talismans said to have been influenced by extraterrestrial intelligence. This is my second such talisman; the first was a gift from deceased mage Roy Alvarez, who was probably the only person I knew able to decode their inscriptions.