1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook cross 5 7/8" tall x 2

5 7/8" tall x 2 7/8" diameter at widest

All of the shoe-shaped snuff boxes I've found have been pocket sized

" which became the title of his autobiography

I thought perhaps that this delicately painted watercolor wreath of forget-me-nots and rose buds was sent to commemorate a loss

1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook cross 5 7/8" tall x 2On 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