Striking and Uncommon Antique Soldered Tin Leaf Cutter (Presumed for Making Glass Domed Wax Flowers) indigenous craft Isle of Man) as seen

Isle of Man) as seen from various approaches

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

thorny protection amplifying a sense of the rose's delicacy

Puppets approx 8 1/2" tall

It is African

Striking and Uncommon Antique Soldered Tin Leaf Cutter (Presumed for Making Glass Domed Wax Flowers) indigenous craft Isle of Man) as seenI 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