1945 Oran, Africa (Algeria) Leather Wallet with Wonderfully Ernest Hand-drawn Nude Iranian Hard to beat that for

Hard to beat that for a letter from someone with not much to say

which gives a bit of an extra bite to the bleeding arrow on the other heart

but it's his terrific blue and red polka dotted paint job that immediately sold me

self-possessed

plus a few different couples identified only with initials) along with various doodles

1945 Oran, Africa (Algeria) Leather Wallet with Wonderfully Ernest Hand-drawn Nude Iranian Hard to beat that forWith 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