Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron sillver 1950s or so I might

1950s or so I might guess

A pretty funny iteration in the genre of erotic folk art toys

and really make for quite a functional as well as charming piece

my guess is that this carved lino print block was made by Eileen Ryan Ewan

Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron sillver 1950s or so I mightThe seller I purchased this from thought it may have been made as a practice or test piece by a metalworker long ago, which seems plausible to me; it was clearly made from one piece of brass, with a wonderfully imperfect seam where the edges were soldered together. (It is hollow inside.) Whatever the case, certainly it was done by hand and I believe has quite a bit of age to. To me it is satisfying in the way that antique geometric solid blocks are,