Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Drawing of Medieval Battle Scene, Germany, WWII era stuffed toy and later settling in Oregon

and later settling in Oregon

and all the better with luscious red paint spelling out OPEN in  perfectly imperfect hand-painted bold lettering over top of it

This gorgeous wooden barrel shaped string holder I believe dates to mid 19th century New England

Having lived and worked in downtown Kansas City for many years

This one was pretty finely but not fussily done

Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Drawing of Medieval Battle Scene, Germany, WWII era stuffed toy and later settling in OregonThis 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