Impressive silver candlestick. Artist’s work. (Apparently not stamped.)
Etched at the bottom of the candlestick: “To Mgr. Lennon from the students of the Scots College Rome 8th Maj 1898” with a Hebrew addition: “To our great teacher in Torah, research and the wonders of science, R’ Lennon Peledato – accept this havdalah candle as an eternal remembrance from your students of 1898.”
This item is being sold as is.
Weight: 345 grams.
Length: Approximately 32 cm.
Very fine condition.
Pair of Viennese candlesticks. Hallmarked silver. Height: 34 cm.
Weight including weighting: 2140 gr.
Oval tray. Hallmarked silver. Length: 40 cm.
Weight: 660 gr.
Fine condition.
Sterling silver cigarette case. Gifted with a dedication in English in 1917. With an etching of the menorah. Beautiful etchings on both sides.
7.5×9.5 cm. 82 grams.
Fine condition.
Large and impressive Parochet, embroidered with fine colors on blue velvet.
Dedicated in memory of the holy gaon Rabbi Moshe Aryeh Freund Gaon Av Beit Din of the Edah HaChareidit, and more.
Size: 235X151 cm.
Fine condition. Light fading of color. Stains, small tears and various blemishes. One hanging-ring is lacking.
Silver-plated Kiddush cup with four gilt engravings of Safed, Mount Zion, the Western Wall and Rachel’s Tomb.
Between the holy places, an additional engraving:
“From me Aryeh Leib
BHRS”Z Kahana to the Prushim community
[1881]”
Height: 7.5 cm. Diameter: 6 cm.
Fine condition. Signs of corrosion.
Silver amulet (apparently not hallmarked). Shaped as an architectural frame with the words: “ש-די צמרכד” in its center.
Size 8C4.5 cm.
See an identical item in The Catalogue of the Jewish Museum London, item 597.
Very fine condition.
Tefilin shel rosh per the custom of Rabbeinu Tam, Ar”i script. C. late 19th century.
Some of the פ’s were written in a unique, ancient style, by which the inside of the letter is double-wrapped internally, within the letter, hence this style letter is known as ‘wrapped letters.’
There is an ancient tradition for this style of writing, but over time, used of this style waned, and even the Chatam Sofer wrote that one should not write in this way. Yet it is known that Chassidic leaders – disciples of the Ba’al Shem Tov, would lay tefillin with passages that contained wrapped letters.
Fine condition. The giddin have been opened. Usage and aging stains.
Unique Chanukah menorah, made by an artisan.
Metal with gemstones and filigree work.
Large frame: Width 28 cm; height 50 cm.
Three chains hang down from the top part to hold a circular plate with nine branches for holding candles.
Moderate condition. Corrosion marks. Lacking one pedestal.
Silver Chanukah menorah, stamped 925.
Length: 16 cm; height 5 cm.
Very fine condition.
Antique Yemenite choker made of silver by an artisan.
Length including the chain: 45 cm.
Weight: 171 grams.
Very fine condition.
Spice holder, large and beautiful. Stamped silver.
Height: 23 cm. Width: 10 cm.
Weight: 508 grams.
The lid is perforated for the insertion of spices. The entire surface of the vessel is decorated.
Very fine condition. Slight dent in the top.
Gouache paint on paper. 24×34 cm. Signed with date. Rennert was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1929. The noticeable dynamic in Gershon Rennert’s works brought him to extremely varied areas of stylistic and aesthetic experiments, from figurative, symbolic painting to abstract, lyrical and expressionist.In the course of his career he put on some 65 sole exhibitions and participated in over 200 group exhibitions. Framed, fine condition.
Unusually large copper necklace for a bride. Yemenite work combined with beads and gemstones.
70 cm. length. 30 cm. width.
Fine condition. The thread for tying is lacking.
Ketubah on paper. 77×69 cm. Persian style colored illustrations. The wording of a Persian Ketubah with the witnesses’ signatures. Many tears and lacking in the text and frame, peelings, in a frame with broken glass, not fine condition.
Silver necklace for the bride. Yemenite work.
21 cm. length. 11 cm. width.
Fine condition.
Among the Ketubot in the collection: 7 large hand colored ketubot, ketubot printed in (colored) lithographic printing, ketubot from various cities in Israel and worldwide: Jerusalem, New York, Ohio, Paris, London, Philadelphia, New Jersey, Ketubot from Reform congregations – [Argentina] Buenos Aires, a Russian Ketuba from 1940 and more. Average size 50×40 cm. Except for two large ketubot 76×55 cm. Size and condition vary, very fine general condition.
Height: 32 cm. Primitive cutting and hammer work in metal. Around each Finial are bells hanging from a chain. A few bells are missing. Slight blemishes and dents. Moderate condition.
Height 60 cm. Diameter of the base 19 cm. Delicate engraving work on the entire surface of the candlestick. Very fine condition.
Five miniature mezuza cases, wood and metal, one of the cases contains the parchment. Average height: 7 cm.
219 [1] pages. 27 cm. A work in Polish by Maria i Kazimierz Piechotkowie published by Wydawn Budownictwo i Architektura. Many photographs and diagrams of well known and less well known wooden synagogues in the area of Poland, the Ukraine and Russia, including the small villages in these areas. Synagogues made of wood were common mainly in these European countries and most of them were built only by Jews after they succeeded, with difficulty, to acquire building permission from the authorities. Most of them were burned by the Nazis during the Second World War. A dedication from 1973. Original leather cover, a slight tear on the rear side, fine condition.
304 pages, 26 cm. Part three [on Proverbs, Job, Ruth, Yonah, Esther and Daniel] of the three parts of the Bible, published by Ferdinand Rahlwes with illustrations by Ephraim Moshe Lilien, Benjamin Harz publishing house. Titles in red, some of the illustrations are full-page. Original illustrated cover, aging stains, the jacket cover of the spine in partially detached. Fine condition.
Women bathing on the seashore. Charcoal on paper, signed Isaac Israels (1865-1934). Isaac Lazarus Israels, a Dutch Jewish artist, the son of the artist Yosef Israels. Learned between the years 1878-1880 in the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, and from a young age was known to be extremely talented. In contrast with his father, there were no Jewish motifs in his pictures. In 1928 he received a gold medal in the art competition of the Amsterdam Olympics in the painting category. He is still considered to be an important and influential artist among the European impressionist painters of the beginning of the 20th century. Damage to the frame, very slight lack in the corner of the picture, very fine condition.
Two parts. Published in Holland in the years 1929-1932 in Dutch by the publishers Zutphen W. J. Thieme, by P. Simon, first edition. Part one [14] 299 pages. Part two [7] 287 pages. One of the first books of its type written in Dutch on the topic of Jewish art, Judaica, Jewish festivals, symbols and more. Accompanied by pictures from the famous illustrations of Rembrandt, Moritz Oppenheim, Isidor Kaufmann and more. The author was murdered in the Holocaust. Original cover. Fine condition.
26, [4] pages, Russian. A book by Boris Aronson, published by Petropolis, Berlin. Many illustrations from the early works of the greatest Jewish artist of all times Marc Chagall, accompanied by explanations and background to each work. A rare book which examines the artist’s works in a relatively early period, before he became known throughout the world. Illustrated jacket cover, stains, tears in the spine, moderate condition.
