Collection of 26 ex-libris. Some important and rare.
The ex-libris include: Prof. Boris Schatz’s personal bookplate, designed for him by Efraim Moshe Lilien. In addition, Sir Otto Jaffe’s bookplate. Yehonatan Prato. Tzvi Barak. D. Pinkas. Rabbi Yehudah ben Eliezer HaLevi and more.
Varying sizes. Overall very fine condition.
* [4] wine labels from Simon Weiss and Sons’ Winery, Jerusalem-Palestine. Regular white wine. Sweet white wine. Extra Medock wine. Old Alicante wine.
* [1] Egozi-Chokolada “Nofet” label. Nofet Jerusalem Bayit Vegan.
* [1] Adloyada label. Adloyada. Tel Aviv-Palestine.
Size: 9.5×12 cm. Overall very fine condition.
Daily voucher to receive bread from the Jewish bakery in Grodno, Poland. 1917.
On the margins of the daily numbers for receiving bread, there are regulations for receipt of bread in three languages: Yiddish, Polish and German. Rare.
[1] leaf, paper. 16×19 cm.
Pasted on to a paper leaf. Very fine condition.
Stamp booklet published in 1948 on the occasion of the Imaba stamp exhibition which took place in Switzerland. The booklet includes seven blocks, each with four identical stamps, with specifications of the stamp underneath. The last page has a magnified copy of the 1000th stamp.
Condition: Very fine.
Fifteen made-in-Israel wine labels, including labels from Carmel hok yashan – the Cooperative Vinter’s Association of Rishon LeTzion and Zichron Yaakov, Madoc Extra wine by Shimon Weiss and Sons in Jerusalem, Vishniak – Binyamina, Gold Sherry wine – this wine was produced in the large wineries from the finest grapes in the land, filled by the Carmel Mizrachi company in Jaffa – Palestine, and more.
Various sizes, fine condition.
An important collection of 84 early Jewish ex-libris of various people and Rabbis in Europe [primarily Germany and England], most of the ex-libris in the collection are early, from the late 19th century or early 20th century. Some of them contain the Gregorian year.
On each ex-libris are definitive Jewish motifs with impressive graphics by the foremost European designers, on some of them are various verses from the Bible or sayings of the Sages which hint to the name of the owner of the ex-libris.
Among the ex-libris which appear in the collection is an ex-libris which belonged to Rabbi Natan Adler designed by Sandheim with the verse “El chanan nachalato bnoam lhashper” dated 1902, [an additional ex-libris from the Adler family with an extraordinary graphic designed Emmanuel Frank and the verse “knesher yair keno”], an ex-libris with a depiction of the city of Jerusalem designed by Hermann Struck (in a wooden and glass frame), the personal ex-libris of Shimon Zinger dated 1899 in the corner , the personal ex-libris of Rabbi Yisrael Jacobowitz [the chief Rabbi of the Union of Jewish Communities of the British Commonwealth, and one of the important scholars in the field of medicine and Judaism in the 20th century], an early ex-libris with an illustration of the Jewish community building in Budapest from the first decade of the 20th century, the private ex-libris of Dr. George Zolberger with a picture of the seven-branched menorah, an ex-libris of Wolf Miller with the verse ‘Yirat Hashem Reishit Da’at’, the ex-libris of Samuel Et Ora designed by R.O. dated: 1934, the ex-libris of the ‘The widow of Rabbi Shmuel Schuster of Frankfurt’, ex-libris of Harry Grodzinski with the saying of the Sages: ‘Who is wealthy – one who is happy with his lot’, a large ex-libris [21×14 cm] of S.Y.Z. Brod with a view of the inside of a synagogue, ‘Renaissance of Jewish Culture’ [in several copies] and others.
In addition, there are 5 labels of early book stores in Germany and England – ‘Leib Hertz Tzuntz Chalfon In Frankfurt am Main’, Isak Nathan in Pest, Jacob Flanter, Josef Schlesinger, ‘Sifrei Kodesh Moshe ben Shalom Hanstater’.
Sizes vary [most of them are large – average size: 9×13 cm]. Some appear in several copies. Fine-very fine overall condition.
Currency: 50 kopeks of the Jewish Labor Society in Russia. Yiddish and Russian writing. Russia, 1930. Rare.
Interesting five-pointed star of David in the center with a picture of a tractor inside, a circle surrounding it with a sickle – the Russian symbol of work, around it within a red stripe with the words in Russian and Yiddish: ‘אלפארכאנדישע געזעלשאפט פארן איינארדענען אף ערד ארבעטנדיקע אידן’ – for the distribution of the society representing the working Jews. OZET LOTEREJA is written in three languages. Russian writing with details about the society and a value table are on its reverse.
Size: 15×11 cm. Except for light stains, very fine condition.
Giant collection of about 700 prizes, Europe and Palestine, 20th century.
Prominent collection, compiled by one collector over many years. Includes a fantastic array of colorful prizes for children: childish scenes, family scenes, flowers, animals, ‘attached’ prizes, necklace prizes and more. Most of the prizes have no religious significance, and as such, aren’t specifically Jewish. Includes complete series, parts of series, and “prizes” that were printed independently. Various publishers and places of print.
Varying sizes and conditions. Overall very fine condition.
Large collection of 235 entrance tickets to theater performances. Israel, 1960s and 70s.
Includes a ticket to “Hershele Ostropeler” in the Amami Theater of the Ohel Theater; ticket to the “HaGashash HaHiver” in the Amami Theater; ticket to the “HaKol Over Chabibi” concert in the Amami Theater, Deshe; ticket to a play by Gadi Yagil and Chana Laszlo “HaChaim Hem Lo Yareiach Devash” in the Yuval Theater; ticket to the “Mishartim shel Shnei Adonim” in the Khan Theater; ticket to “From Bucharest until Tel Aviv” in the Olim Theater, headed by Chaim Avidan and more.
Additionally includes to theater productions operettas in Yiddish, Orot Theater, The Yosef Lichtenberg Theater; a revue in Romanian; operetta and comedy in Yiddish; Yuval Theater; Mifal Amanut L’Am – HaAmami Theater; Zaviot Theater; “Octave with the Mabat Theater”, Haifa Municipal Theater; Khan Theater; Varod Theater; Cameri Theater; Matmid Cinema; HaChamam Theater; Yiddish Folk Theater; Shai-Raz Productions; Revue in Romanian; Yoval Theater; Polish Pantomime Theater; Benny Boom in the Orot Theater; performance by “Bnot Batya” in the Ohalei Shem auditorium; plays at the “Zaviot” theater; Belinda Theater; Musical-Comedy Theater; Peter Pan at the Haifa Municipal Theater, and more.
The collection is in three albums. Various sizes. The tickets are in fine-very fine condition.
* A receipt of the Knesset Yisrael Hebron Yeshiva for the sum of one lira which was received from David Slotzkin: 17th Tevet 5702 [1942]. In the margins of the receipt is the handwritten signature of Rabbi Yechezkel Sarna. Size: 24×15 cm, slight tears in the margins. Fine condition.
* A share certificate for the sum of 5 lira of the Knesset Yisrael Hebron Yeshiva – Kiryat Hebron the building fund. The yeshiva complex is seen in the background. The share was issued as part of a process to collect funds for the construction of the complex of the Hebron yeshiva in Jerusalem. On the rear side are details about the rights of the one who purchases the shares [‘One who purchases shares at the sum of 2000 lira, or anyone he gives instructions about, will be commemorated on the founders plaque in the complex etc’]. Size: 23×11 cm. Very fine condition.
Two shares certificates of ‘Charedi Polania B’Eretz Yisrael – Cooperative Ltd.’ Circa 1930’s.
One for the sum of 50 lira, the other for the sum of 2 lira. All the dividend vouchers are complete on both certificates.
The Charedi Polania B’Eretz Yisrael society was founded in the 1930’s for Polish immigrants in order to improve their economic standing and to provide them with a cohesive social group.
Identical sizes: 37×24 cm.
Very fine condition.
Share certificate number 2774 in colored lithographic print which was issued by the ‘Chevrah Lhitakrut Bnei HaYeshivot’ to a person who purchased one of the company’s shares. The share was designed by Meir Gur Aryeh and Zeev Raban, artists from ‘Bezalel’. The signature of the company’s president [in lithographic printing], Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Hacohen Kook and the company’s manager, treasurer and honorary secretary Rabbi Dovber Epstein, appear on the certificate in Hebrew and English.
Details were filled out on the certificate by hand.
At the bottom of the certificate is a lithographic picture depicting yeshiva students sitting and studying in the shade of the trees in an orchard, with a farmer in the background ploughing his ground. Underneath the drawing are words which summarize the company’s goal: “Torah study and building the Land”.
Chevrah Lhitakrut Bnei HaYeshivot was founded in 1929 by Rav Kook in order to “settle Torah scholars from the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva in Jerusalem and from other yeshivot in all kinds of agricultural lands. To arrange and aid the arrangement of gatherings and groups of yeshiva students and to train them for agricultural work… to assist in the immigration of people from the Diaspora who wish to work the land while keeping their faith” (from an advertising booklet the company published). The company operated for about two years and eventually closed due to financial difficulties.
Size: 17×34 cm.
Condition: Very fine.
Collection of [13] membership certificates, rare printed leaves and rare ephemera – most from Jewish organizations in Europe, and rare publications published in the Land of Israel, first half of the 20th century.
* Invitation to the opening of the “Akiva” training company in Plotzk, 1910. On behalf of the “Bnei Akiva” movement. Hebrew and Polish on facing pages. [‘At 8:30 in the evening, celebratory academy in the ‘Maccabee’ hall … lecture by … Yehudah Ahrenstein … at 9:00 company opening, Neshef].
* National Federation of Mizrachi of Western Galizien and Schlesien membership certificate for 1933 [‘The owner of this certificate has the right to to vote and to be elected to all the Mizrachi meetings and institutions,’ with the Mizrachi federation stamp, and the principles of the movement. Reinsness press, Krakow.
* ‘Akiva’ Hebrew Youth Organization membership certificate from Plotzk 1938.
* Gymnastics and Sports Association in Poland membership card – “Maccabee” from 1938
* ‘Tarbut’ Association of Western Lesser Poland and Schlesien membership card, [1934]
* Zionist Association of Western Lesser Poland and Schlesien, Krakow, 1937. With the movement’s principles in Polish. On the title of the card ‘Zionism aspires to acquire a safe haven by way of an open judgement for the people of Israel in the Land of Israel’ Basel 1887
* Shimon Eisenberg’s membership card in the General World Zionist Organization – the General Zionist Federation in Poland, Warsaw, 1938.
* JNF certificate for a donation of trees – February 1946, given to David Baltlovsky of the fourth grade in the Emek HaYarden school. Small format: 13×14 cm.
* JNF postcard – donation for trees with printed writing on the back about the goals of the JNF in three languages – Hebrew, Yiddish and French. Donor’s details filled in by hand.
* Printed leaf with words of the song ‘Perach Lavan’ by S. Fischer published by the Panorama cafe, Tel Aviv, 1930s. [Printed on the leaf in a price list format and distributed the diners at the cafe.]
* Printed leaf published by ‘The Youth Organization for Jewish Studies.’ Words of the song ‘Ben Esrim’ in the public singing framework with the guidance of A. Migdalin.
* Advertising leaf published by ‘HaTeruah al Hulgah’ directed by Alexandrov with the words of the song taken from the film printed on the back.
* Miniature pocket calendar for 1942-3 [7.5×6 cm] published by ‘HaTechiya’ – Hebrew, European, Arabic. Jerusalem 1943.
[13] paper items in total.
Various sizes and conditions. Overall moderate-fine condition.
ZWIAZEK POLAKOW W CHINACH – LEGITYMACJA [One of the group of Polish people in China] – an identity card of the student Abraham Aron Kreiser – born in Leipzig in 1920 which was issued in Shanghai in January 1943 and was effectively authorization to be in the city. On the card are his address, town of birth, several stamps from 1944 and 1945, handwritten signatures, and his passport photograph. On the back are printed Chinese letters. Rare.
Size: 11×8 cm.
Very fine condition.
Quality, diverse collection of about 400 bookplates. Over half of the collection consists of Jewish bookplates.
Most of the collection consists of plates with Jewish motifs or that belonged to Jewish owners. In addition, there are plates that were designed by Jewish artists and ex-libris from public institutions and libraries, bookplates of noted Jewish personalites and more.
Some bookplates of note: personal bookplate of Rabbi Yosef Yisrael HaLevi Hoffman, Rabbi Moshe de Picciotto [England], Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaKohen Fishman [Maimon], author Shmuel Edelman, Meir Zvi Karoch, Gershon Agron – mayor of Jerusalem, [two bookplates, one in Hebrew, and the second in English with his original last name Agronski], bookplates designed by Efraim Moshe Lilien, bookplates with illustrations of synagogues, the Western Wall and more.
Additionally includes non-Jewish bookplates with impressive graphics from various countries.
The collection is housed in two albums.
Varying sizes and conditions.
Overall fine-very fine condition.
A collection of 111 ‘Happy New Year’, ‘Gemar Chatima Tova’ and ‘Ketiva V’Chatima Tova’ cards. Most of the cards were produced in Israel, some in Lodz, Warsaw, Łęczyca, Ripon, Brooklyn and more. Cards with various illustrations, cards with greetings in Yiddish, cards in a special format (miniature) and more.
Most of the cards have happy new year greetings in handwriting or calligraphic print addressed to Rabbi Yitzchak Yedidya Frankel [Rabbi of the Florentin neighborhood of Tel Aviv and Chief Rabbi of the city of Tel Aviv from 1973], which were sent by various high ranking people, Rabbis, politicians and prominent people in Israeli and general society. Among them: The mayor of Tel Aviv Mordechai Namir, the Mayor of Tel Aviv Yisrael Rokach, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset Binyamin Mintz, Rabbi Chaim David HaLevi Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv, Rabbi of the Air Force – Rabbi Dov Cohen, Rabbi Yosef Shafran, Moshe Kraus cantor of the Ultra-Orthodox community in Brussels, and others.
Some of the envelopes are in the original envelopes they were sent in.
Average size: 10×6 cm.
Fine condition.
A collection of 15 ‘Happy New Year’, ‘Ketiva V’chatima tova v’simchat yom tov’ greeting cards printed in private design from various Rabbis.
Among them: “Blessings for a good new year as sweet as honey” of the Rebbe of Nadvorna-Hadera; “Ketiva V’chatima tova V’Gmar Chatima Tovah V’Simchat Yom Tov” – the personal card of Rabbi Chananya Yom Tov Lipa Deutsch; “All of the blessings for the new year, ketiva v’chaima tova and simchat yom tov” – a personal greeting card of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach; an interesting card of Rabbi Matityahu Ashkenazi from 1944 [written in initials at the top: ‘May the year of blood end’]; a card from 1931 and more.
Some of the cards have handwriting on the back.
Average size: 11×8 cm.
Varying conditions, overall fine condition.
A collection of [23] ballots. Most represent groups and parties that no longer exist.
The ballots describe the various parties that represented different groups of people.
On the back of the Yahadut Hatorah party’s note are Torah novellae.
size: 7×10 cm.
fine condition.
A collection of 34 old wine labels of Israeli alcoholic drinks, including Alicante Jerusalem, Tokaji Yashan, Muskat Muvchar, Yayin Monitin, Yayin Tokaji, Spirit Naki, Yayin Yashan Noshan – Karmei Dov and more.
Sizes vary, fine condition.
A check for the sum of $338.50 signed by the well-known journalist Joseph Pulitzer. The check was written on January 16, 1882 in Saint Louis, Missouri, and submitted by the governmental savings agency ‘The Post Dispatch’.
The check was in a plastic frame of confirmation of authenticity and grading by the PSA/DNA which graded the check NM7.
Joesph Pulitzer [1847-1911] was a Jewish-American newspaper editor and publisher. Pulitzer was born in Mako, Hungary. He emigrated to America in 1864 where he served in the the St. Louis Post-Dispatch during the American Civil War. He was the owner of the newspaper “The World” in St. Louis and later moved to New York. His newspaper was replete with sensationalism and unusual human stories, and also fought against corruption, public fraud and exploitation of the poor. Pulitzer was a member of the United States House of Representatives as a representative of New York for a short period. In his will he founded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism and literature which is named after him. The Pulitzer Prize is considered to be the most prestigious prize in the field of written journalism. The prizewinners are selected by 102 judges elected by the board of directors. It has been awarded annually since 1917.
The value of the check before us is $338.5, a high value corresponding to $7,687.29 if written today.
Size: 20×8 cm. In a plastic case of the grading company, 32×15 cm.
A large share certificate of ‘The Jewish Colonial Trust’. At each of its four corners are pictures in lithographic print of scenes from the Land of Israel: the Western Wall, a farmer in the field, workers in a weaving factory, and port workers. The certificate is stamped with the dated November 29, 1900.
On the rear side are instructions for filling it out in three languages – English, Russian and German. In the center is a later sticker from the 1950’s which discusses the real value of the previous certificate according to the exchange rate valid at the time.
‘The Jewish Colonial Trust’ was founded at the First Zionist Congress in Basel by Herzl as part of the founding of a “Hebrew bank” whose purpose was to assist in the settlement of the Jews in Argentina, and later in the Land of Israel. With the sum the company raised a bank business was opened in London, whose important investment was the establishment of the Anglo-Palestine company in 1902. The company’s shares underwent various transformations and changes of ownership. In the 21st century, the company was taken over by the World Zionist Federation.
Size: 34×18 cm.
Fine condition.
Stock Certificate – Anglo-Palestine Bank [The Anglo Palestine Company] stamped on May 27, 1910.
Regulations and terms of payment until 1931 are printed on the reverse.
The Anglo Palestine Bank was the central financial institution of the yishuv at the end of the Ottoman era, the entire period of the British Mandate, and even at the beginning of the State of Israel. The bank was established in 1902 as a company with the name ‘The Anglo Palestine Co.,’ a subsidiary of the Jewish Colonial Trust which was registered in Britain. The company began to function as a bank in Jaffa in 1903, and in 1931 received the name ‘The Anglo-Palestine Bank.’
Size: 32×22 cm.
Fold mark. Fine condition.
Means of payment of “Makolet Strachilevits” Petach Tivka – “will provide merchandise for this note, in the amount of 04 prutot.” note #84. Stamped on the back with Zvi Strachilevits stamp.
Zvi Strachilevits was born in Kishinev [Bessarabia] in 1880. He was a passionate Zionist activist from the very start. When Herzl’s Medinat HaYehudim was first published, he worked day and night to sell the Zionist shekel to every adult Jew in the city – and he was only seventeen-years-old. When the local Jews sadly said that they could not choose him as a representative to the congress because of his age, he calmed them saying, “By the time you manage to do anything on behalf of Zion, I will already be there myself.” Right after the first congress he immigrated to Palestine in 1897. He worked in agriculture. He was one of the prominent proponents of the idea of “avoda ivrit.” When Herzl visited Palestine, he was one of the four members of the delegation that invited him to visit the Jewish settlements and was present during Herzl’s meeting with Emperor Wilhelm II at the entrance to Mikve Yisrael. He initiated a number of important institutions in Petach Tikva, including the employment bureau, public library, worker’s kitchen, cooperative winery, and the “Geula” mutual credit institution. After the British conquest, he moved to Jaffa, where he continued working for the public good.
Size: 5×7 cm. Very fine condition.
A collection of checks and bank-related paper items – most from the first decades of the 20th century.
The collection is in a binder and contains, among other things: Lending regulations of the “Shefa” Bank, an advertisement to purchase “Agrobank” bonds – a bank for agriculture and building of the Land of Israel, 1939, receipts of the Eretzisraeli National Bank, Palestine 1933, checks and documents of the members of “Kupat Ha’Am”, a lenders ledger of “Masad” – a mutual society for loans and savings, a record book of “Bank Kupat Ha’Am”, checks of Bank Eretz Yisrael – Britania with Hebrew post stamps, checks of the Deutsche Palastina-Bank, checks of the Bank Mercazi L’Mischar Ltd. 1935, checks of the Orttoman Bank Jerusalem, a check of ‘Bank Geula U’Binyan’, a check of the Anglo-Palestine Company Limited, promissory notes of the Anglo-Palestine Bank, documents of the ‘Shlomo HaMelech Bank’ from the 1930’s. Documents from the Olim Eretz Yisrael – Polania Bank Ltd. and more.
A total of approximately 65 checks and paper items. Sizes and conditions vary.
