1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook The Modern House in America Plum measures 2 1/2" t

Plum measures 2 1/2" t x 2 1/2" w

On the top

which indeed makes a terrific rattle sound when shaken

with this slightly goofy looking guy having a bit of a crooked nose and rumpled chin

The serpent-entwined Rod of Asclepius

1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook The Modern House in America Plum measures 2 1/2" tOn 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