Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era black and white dog The basic story

The basic story

so I am confident 1882 is the date of its making

and what appears to be a lithographed eye still on one side

I have no idea the story behind this carving

making it easy to get at whatever is stored inside

Arthur Tilo Alt, Boy in Bed Reading, Childhood Drawing, Berlin, WW2 Era black and white dog The basic storyThis is among a several drawings I purchased together 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 Texas. While I