1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook antique flip drawing its weighing 22 pounds did

its weighing 22 pounds did nothing to deter me

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

and I've become quite a keen inspector of pieces

while also resembling a wedding cake

and I believe the box is pewter

1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook antique flip drawing its weighing 22 pounds didOn 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