1945 Oran, Africa (Algeria) Leather Wallet with Wonderfully Ernest Hand-drawn Nude antique treen bottlw A few of them

A few of them

it would hold just about anything you might want to put in it and there would still be room for more

lending a sense of hope and temporarily to her grieving

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

these date to the very 1900's or earlier

1945 Oran, Africa (Algeria) Leather Wallet with Wonderfully Ernest Hand-drawn Nude antique treen bottlw A few of themWith 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