Striking and Uncommon Antique Soldered Tin Leaf Cutter (Presumed for Making Glass Domed Wax Flowers) indigenous craft This may be my favorite

This may be my favorite of the lot--a bit unassuming on the outside

wonderfully aged black painted surface

with the surface worn smooth

I really love its squatness and its oddness and the significant love and labor invested in making it

It is African

Striking and Uncommon Antique Soldered Tin Leaf Cutter (Presumed for Making Glass Domed Wax Flowers) indigenous craft This may be my favoriteI purchased this first and foremost because I found it super beautiful as both a sculptural object and a line drawing of sorts, too each of those curvaceous leaves hand soldered to the flat tin back, with sharp edges exposed clearly made for cutting. (And of course I especially love the heart at the stem end.) But it is also quite unusual in my experience to see a tin cutting form segmented like this, and I've realized since that it was probably made