WW2 US Navy Sailor's Hand-Painted South Seas Trinket Box with Irving Berlin Auto

A hand-crafted, hand-painted wooden WW2 US Navy Sailor's Trinket box filled with momentos for his wife. The metal-latched/hinged wooden box is amazing... Crafted not only to last for the ages, but to survive its arduous postal journey from the South Seas to Iowa. As for provenance, there is a meal ticket from the USS Sarasota (APA-204) dated July 1944 as well as other personal odds an ends (as shown in the pictures).... Including the following noteworthy piece.

A program and ticket stud from Irving Berlin's all-soldier-show "This is the Army" that appears to have been signed by Irving Berlin himself! While this signature has NOT been authenticated, given the surrounding provenance and the fact the that the ink on the program certainly looks to be as old as the paper, I'm pretty confident this this signature is legit. I've also looked at various Berlin signatures, and this one seems to be consistent with many that are portrayed in Google images. What's also really interesting about the program is that the name of the Island containing the Naval Base in which the show appeared was censored out "loose lips, " etc. , as shown in pic #4.

This is truly a WW2 time capsule! Please examine the pics for content/condition specifics and feel free to send along any questions you may have.

This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\WW II (1939-45)\Original Period Items\United States\Other US WWII Original Items". The seller is "gitoys" and is located in this country: US.

This item can be shipped to United States.

Conflict: WW II (1939-45)
Original/Reproduction: Original
Theme: Militaria
Region of Origin: United States
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States