1945 Oran, Africa (Algeria) Leather Wallet with Wonderfully Ernest Hand-drawn Nude antique treen bottlw deeply incised Art Nouveau inspired

deeply incised Art Nouveau inspired decoration around its in neck and shoulders in shades of copper

Then some blank pages followed by a brief section on "Arithmetik"

these date to the very 1900's or earlier

11" long x 5 3/4" deep x 2 3/4" tall

1945 Oran, Africa (Algeria) Leather Wallet with Wonderfully Ernest Hand-drawn Nude antique treen bottlw deeply incised Art Nouveau inspiredWith a bit of searching, I've actually found a few other examples of leather wallets (I think actually cigarette cases) with hand tooled and hand drawn designs on their fronts, made in Oran 1943 45 (in WW2 the city, on the NW coast of Algeria, was one of the landing points for the first American action in the Europe North Africa theatre, and I have to guess this wallet travelled back to the U. S. with a soldier stationed there). No others I have found