Striking and Uncommon Antique Soldered Tin Leaf Cutter (Presumed for Making Glass Domed Wax Flowers) charge meter cool The super long stick makes

The super long stick makes them great for sticking into a potted plant--ideally near a window where they might then do their job as hummingbird magnets

Some clouding as evident along the bottom edge of the photo

with wonderfully folky boat speeding ahead

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

I believe--1910s or so

Striking and Uncommon Antique Soldered Tin Leaf Cutter (Presumed for Making Glass Domed Wax Flowers) charge meter cool The super long stick makesI 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