1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook cross All of the shoe-shaped snuff

All of the shoe-shaped snuff boxes I've found have been pocket sized

5 7/8" tall x 2 7/8" diameter at widest

sweetly painted in blue and orange with gold striped details

and all the rarer in great working shape with key

The lighting conditions for my photos was not very good

1946 Japanese School Drawing Textbook cross All of the shoe-shaped snuffOn the first inside page of this softcover Japanese school book is an inscription from E. Okada at the Shijonawate Police Station in Osaka to Lieutenant Fulton, "In memory of goodbye," dated January 15, 1946 shortly after the end of the WWII and beginning of Allied occupation. It seems a bit of an unusual gift for a Japanese police officer (one assumes) to give an American lieutenant, but perhaps a friendship between the two was rooted in both having