Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era fans typically wonderfully worn objects that

typically wonderfully worn objects that they are

with a light center crease  and a tiny bit of light foxing at upper right

This is one of two hard-backed math notebooks with marbleized paper covers and printed endpapers with "A Collection of Arithmetical Tables for the Use of Schools" of a Samuel Gifford studying at Mr

Its shape is that of a ginger jar

Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era fans typically wonderfully worn objects thatThis is among a several drawings I purchased together by Dr. Arthur Tilo Alt (1931 2019) a scholar and professor of German in Yiddish language and literature in the Judaic studies program at Duke University which came from his estate in Younsgsville, NC. Born in Java, Indonesia, Alt's family returned to their native Germany in 1933, where Tilo grew up in West Berlin, ultimately moving to the U. S. in 1956 to study at the University of Texas. While I