Raymond Till, Accounting Dept, Boston Navy Yard Early Photo ID Pass in Leather Sleeve carved bone polar bear no lost or loose pages

no lost or loose pages

Four drawings total here

1 1/16" across at base

it might be read as pure abstraction

With especially gorgeous mustard yellow and creamy white paint--I could just look at them arranged as in the first photo forever

Raymond Till, Accounting Dept, Boston Navy Yard Early Photo ID Pass in Leather Sleeve carved bone polar bear no lost or loose pagesI don't come across a pass or identification card with a photo this old very often, and I quite like the looks of our smiling Raymond Till in his hat and bow tie not looking too much the accountant to me! The pass is for access to the Boston Navy Yard (in Charlestown, opened in 1800 as one of the first navy yards of the US Navy), and was issued by a US Navy Paymaster Armstrong King I believe. To me this looks early 20th century WW1 era rather than