Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Watercolor Drawing of Firetruck, Germany, WWII era primitive pencil box 9 x 11 7/8"

9 x 11 7/8"

I do rather love the vision of a series of them lined up along the bar in a lively saloon somewhere out west

On the underside of the base is carved "Willy"

and loosely brushed on pinkish paint against black on the sides

present and future

Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Watercolor Drawing of Firetruck, Germany, WWII era primitive pencil box 9 x 11 7/8"This is one a second batch of watercolor drawings I've purchased 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