1945 Oran, Africa (Algeria) Leather Wallet with Wonderfully Ernest Hand-drawn Nude antique blue and white published in Vienna

published in Vienna

Executed in graphite across two sheets of lined paper taped together on the backside

Last photo is with 1940s Scheier mug

"apple pedal pink"

1945 Oran, Africa (Algeria) Leather Wallet with Wonderfully Ernest Hand-drawn Nude antique blue and white published in ViennaWith a bit of searching, I've actually found a few other examples of leather wallets (I think actually cigarette cases) with hand tooled and hand drawn designs on their fronts, made in Oran 1943 45 (in WW2 the city, on the NW coast of Algeria, was one of the landing points for the first American action in the Europe North Africa theatre, and I have to guess this wallet travelled back to the U. S. with a soldier stationed there). No others I have found