Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron sillver Lid opens easily and closes

Lid opens easily and closes tight and flush

a "titan of real  estate in Boston for six decades" who

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

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

Brass clasps attaching the various parts

Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron sillver Lid opens easily and closesThe 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,