Striking and Uncommon Antique Soldered Tin Leaf Cutter (Presumed for Making Glass Domed Wax Flowers) charge meter cool A super striking image I

A super striking image I think

or an orchid

Hiram Campbell Merrill  (1866-1958) was a Boston-born painter and engraver

9 1/4" l x 2" wide and deep

with wonderfully folky boat speeding ahead

Striking and Uncommon Antique Soldered Tin Leaf Cutter (Presumed for Making Glass Domed Wax Flowers) charge meter cool A super striking image II 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