Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Watercolor Drawing of Red Cross Nurse carved pig A charming and useful set

A charming and useful set of tools to add to the sewing kit

And I think it's become all the better with age

it would be great for holding eggs

It was purchased from an estate sale that included a wonderful collection of mid-century and contemporary ceramics from Japan

and holds securely

Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Watercolor Drawing of Red Cross Nurse carved pig A charming and useful setThis is one of a number of watercolor drawings that came from the Younsgsville, NC estate of 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. 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 Texas. All indications are