Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Watercolor Drawing of Firetruck, Germany, WWII era primitive pencil box indigenous to the Caribbean and

indigenous to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America

and loosely brushed on pinkish paint against black on the sides

On the underside of the base is carved "Willy"

then with a layer of white on the upper half

Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Watercolor Drawing of Firetruck, Germany, WWII era primitive pencil box indigenous to the Caribbean andThis 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