1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook antique flip drawing Definitely worthy of hanging

Definitely worthy of hanging

The brass toppers show a little age but overall good condition and lots of use left in them

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

and I believe the box is pewter

for serving nuts

1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook antique flip drawing Definitely worthy of hangingOn 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