Cool Welded Copper Hand-Shaped Folk Art Flask/Sculpture curved sides An elegant form with perfect

An elegant form with perfect patina

which I'd guess date to the 1920s or 30s

made to be beautiful

Along the bottom edge is are two neat tears running from the U in Massachusetts and the O in Boston to the bottom of the sheet

Cool Welded Copper Hand-Shaped Folk Art Flask/Sculpture curved sides An elegant form with perfectI have no idea the backstory to this old handmade copper hand, but I think it's pretty cool. It's a vessel, I'd guess made with the idea of serving as a flask of sorts literally to hold four fingers of whiskey! At some point or maybe from the beginning a hook was threaded through the stopper (which screws in tight), that facilitates getting the plug in an out and would make it easy to hang on the wall. The hook will also screw out to give it a flat