Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era oneonta ny not visible when closed

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housed in their original box

I have not found another wooden shoe form out there with hooks and laces quite like this one

historic time capsules

which highlighted the best of American Machine Age design and craftsmanship in aluminum

Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era oneonta ny not visible when closedThis 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