Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron printmaking roller but very soon to transition

but very soon to transition

with old fold lines as evident

The way this one has aged amplifies all that makes her great I think

and I am pretty certain the JK (or KJ) who signed it was also the author of two other ink and watercolor drawings I've just listed with a very similar line

Lovely Old Hand Soldered Brass Dodecahedron printmaking roller but very soon to transitionThe 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,