1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook antique flip drawing for serving nuts

for serving nuts

and I've become quite a keen inspector of pieces

With leather ears

its weighing 22 pounds did nothing to deter me

Overall dimsensions: 8 13/16" x 6 3/4"

1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook antique flip drawing for serving nutsOn the first inside page of this softcover Japanese school book is an inscription from E. Okada at the Shijonawate Police Station in Osaka to Lieutenant Fulton, "In memory of goodbye," dated January 15, 1946 shortly after the end of the WWII and beginning of Allied occupation. It seems a bit of an unusual gift for a Japanese police officer (one assumes) to give an American lieutenant, but perhaps a friendship between the two was rooted in both having