Austria: Joseph [von] Wertheimer commemoration medal in silver by Carl Radnitzky, 1867; 44.5mm, 34.85g; thickness: 2.75mm. Obverse legend: "Dem Scheidenden Vorstandpraeses" [The Outgoing Board President] + 2-line subtitle: "Die Beamten der Israel Cultusgemeinde in Wien 1867" [The Officials of the Israelite Religious Community of Vienna, 1867], surrounding Hebrew Proverbs quotation "A Faithful Man Shall Abound...
HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale
By: Historama
Historama HISTORAMA AUCTION #7 - 'Buy or Bid' Sale
Monday 8-04-2019 Timed Sale at Bidspirit.com @ 19:15 Israel-time | LOTS #1-579
Numismatics | Judaic Tokens & Medals | Banknotes | Arabiana | Israeliana | Judaica | Militaria | Ephemera
Tuesday 9-04-2019 @ 20:00 Israel-time | LOTS #580-1313
Stamps | Postal History | Philately | Paraphilately | Philatelic Documents
Welcome you to our 7th auction, this being our first in the format of a 'Buy or Bid' sale, where lots may be bid-on or purchased outright; there are over 1300 attractive lots on offer. The sale features items in every one of our areas of specialty, and is probably the largest (and best) selection of Judaic, Holyland and Israeli collectibles for sale anywhere at this time. Featured subjects include ancient & modern coins; Jewish tokens & medals; Jewish, Mandate & Israeli militaria; World War II collaborationist and Holocaust-related militaria; loose & affixed stamps of the Holyland, Egypt and the JNF; postal history of all periods and across all themes and subjects from the Holyland, Mandate, Israel, the Palestinian Authority & near east, as well as worldwide wartime (WWI / WWII) civilian and military mail (from 'horseshoe' and pre-'horseshoe route' mail to post-Third Reich 'uberroller' & displaced persons mail), mail of the Arab-Israeli conflict & 'postkrieg', Hijack/Terror mail + American Civil War Confederate States of America philately - a new subject area for us (students of Israeli & Interim postal history - unusual routes, special rates & key dates - will recognize many similar characteristics to their CSA counterpart); plus Judaica, Israeliana, Arabiana, banknotes and other areas of interest. There are many unique and 'discovery' items in this sale, and many fascinating objects both old and contemporary worth your attention.
The sale itself is divided into 2 parts, one covering non-philatelic fields (lots 1 - 579), and one covering philately (lots 580 - 1313). The period between now and the published 'end times' of the two parts of sale functions as a 'pre-sale' period: during this time lots may be bid on in a standard mail auction manner (bids submitted in writing) or through the online auction program, or be purchased outright. The published opening bid prices are the minimum bid prices, and the buyout prices (displayed below the lot descriptions) are mostly set 50% above the opening bid levels (traditionally "best" bids, which win a lot even before an auction's end are set to 3x the opening bid price). These "buy it now" prices are dynamic: they will rise by 5-10% for every bid received on a lot once the current bid level passes the midway point between the starting bid price and the original buyout price - please visit our home site historama.com/auctions or contact us for the updated buy-out prices. This is not intended to take advantage of interest in a lot but rather to avoid discouraging bidders from continuing to bid on an item of interest. As of now, at the end of the pre-sale period for Part 1 of the sale (non-philatelic items), available lots will be offered for sale in a timed live sale on our page at Bidspirit.com; Part 2 (philately) will run as a mail auction until the published end date and time, with 5 minute time-extensions if bids are received in the last minute of the sale (or time extension).
Once the sale is over it will take a few days to issue official "winner" notifications. Please bear with us, as the more broadly the sale is displayed and the more people participate, the more complex the process of collating all the bids from various sources and actioning special requests. The winner notification email contains a link to our automated checkout on the site - and this process generates the invoice. Please check your "spam" folder for the mail (from "historama-auctions") if it doesn't reach your inbox within 2-3 days of the sale's end. Unsold lots will be available for direct purchase after the sale - but may be displayed at a higher price than the opening bid levels for the sale: we do this to discourage fence-sitting during the sale; the opening bid prices are competitively set in order to encourage bidding. Here I should emphasize that the opening bid prices are not a reflection of our evaluation of a lot’s worth: where possible I have added an estimated value at the end of a product description, but a low starting price should not be construed as a lack of understanding of a lot’s worth.
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Lot #111 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Austria > Vienna: Ludwig August von Frankl Jewish Community recognition medal, 1880; struck in bronze(?); by Carl Radnitzky; weight: 29.1g; size: 39.75mm. Obverse: left facing Frankl; legend "L:A : Frankl Ritter V:Hochwart". Reverse: coat of arms of "Jewish Religious Community" + date '1880' above; motto in Germanic script below"By Word and Deed"; rim legend "The Friends and Fellow Officers of the...
Lot #112 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Austria: Adolf von Sonnenthal 70th birthday uniface plaque by Ede Telcs, 1904, in bronze; size: 44 x 67.75mm; weight: 75.35g. The German legend reads that the plaque was issued in honor of Sonnenthal by the vice president of the Vienna Jewish Museum. Sonnenthal was an Austrian-Jewish actor in honor of whom numerous medals were made during his lifetime: the presentation of this medal to him by the Jewish...
Lot #113 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Austria: Carl Andorfer uniface commemorative bronze plaque, 1906, by Hans Schaefer; size: 3.15 x 5.65cm; weight: 33.3g. Obverse: left facing Andorfer, name below; "Vienna 1906" beneath + Schaefer's name at base. Andorfer (1852- 1912) was a famous numismatist, owner of "Andorfer & Bachmann", vice-president of the Numismatic Society from 1902 to 1905, and helped create a large collection of medals...
Lot #114 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Austria: Gustav Mahler cast bronze plaque by Franz Stiasny, ND (circa. 1930's), mounted on wooden display; size (plaque only): 54.5 x 63mm; weight (whole unit) 173.3g. Plaque depicts right-facing relief profile of Mahler with his name on lower right, with "F. Stiasny" in upper left corner. Mahler (1860-1911) was a Jewish-Austrian composer, considered the leading composer and conductor of his...
Lot #115 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Austria: Bruno Walter profile bronze uniface plaquette by Edwin Grienauer, c. 1962; size: 47 x 60.5mm; weight: 70.1g. Walter (1876-1962) was a German-born Jewish conductor, who conducted symphonies in Germany, Austria and New York; a close friend of Gustav Mahler and considered one of the foremost musicians of the 20th Century. The medallist Grienauer (1893-...
Lot #116 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
France: Alfred Dreyfus/Fernand Labori medallion (ND); bronze(?); 22.5mm, 4.2g: busts of Dreyfus & Labori below their names; may date to period of Emile Zola's letter "J'accuse", which effectively reopened the trial (1898). In VF.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $74. This price will rise by about 5-10% for...
Lot #117 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
France: bronze medal commemorating the 100th Astroid discovered, featuring Jewish Franco-German astronomer Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt, 1868; by Alphée Dubois; size: 69.25mm; thickness: 4.5mm; weight: 167.7g. Obverse: allegorical female figure + Fr. legend "100 Planets Discovered Between Mars and Jupiter 1801-1868" & names of 3 pioneering astronomers Piazzi, Olbers & Hencke....
Lot #118 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
France: Narcisse Leven 50th Anniversary of Alliance Israelite Universelle, 1910; struck in bronze; by Jewish medalist Emmanuel Hannaux; weight: 94.25g; size: 59mm. Obverse depicts detailed left facing bust of Leven with French legend around edge "Narcisse Leven Pt. [President] De L'Alliance Israelite Universelle"; on reverse an allegorical image of female artist set against a castle and a canvas with Tablets...
Lot #119 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
France: Shmuel Yosef ("Shai") Agnon Nobel Prize commemoration bronze medal by Hélène Guastalla (1903-1983); size: 76.5mm; weight: 212.5g. On obverse an image of Agnon facing forward, with French cursive legend around "1966 Nobel Prize for Literature" and "Agnon". On reverse image of the wild dog from Agnon's work "Only Yesterday", unusually with the words in Hebrew "Kelev Shote" - wild dog....
Lot #120 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
France: André Salmon bronze medal by Maurice Savin, ND; size: 66mm; weight: 142.35g. Obverse depicts left-facing portrait of Salmon with legend in French above; on reverse image of woman in a sea supporting a man holding a balance. Andre Salmon (1881-1969) was a French-Jewish poet, art critic and writer; an early defender of Cubism; and ironically prosecuted after the Second World War for continuing to write...
Lot #121 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Germany: 25th anniversary bibliophile bronze commemoration medal for Gustav Kirstein, 1929, by Bruno Eyermann; size: 50.5mm; weight: 51.4g. Obverse: female holding owl; German legend "25 Jahre Bibliophilen Abend + Leipzig + 1904 1929". Reverse: left-facing Kirstein; German legend "Gustav Kirstein Dem Bibliophilen" ['Gustav Kirstein The Bibliophile']. Issued by the most presigious bibliophilic...
Lot #122 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Germany: Moses Mendelssohn large relief bust uniface medal, bronze by J.O. (Robert Ball); 100.6mm, 134g: left-facing profile of Mendelssohn on obverse; reverse is incused, with loop for hanging the medal. The minter's name ("Verlag Rob Ball Nchf Berlin") - Robert Ball, Berlin - appears along the edge below the bust. Undated but probably produced for the bicentennial of Mendelssohn's birth, c.1929 (the firm of...
Lot #123 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Germany: Moses Mendelssohn bust medium sized relief bronze medal, by J.O. (Robert Ball numismatists); 62mm; 103.85g. Left-facing profile of Mendelssohn w/3 lined leg. "Moses Mendelssohn 1729-1786". Undated but probably produced for 200th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth, c. 1929. In VF-EF.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial...
Lot #124 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Germany: Moses Mendelssohn Center ("Moses-Mendelsohn-Zentrum") award(?) medal (ND); in .999 silver (proof state), by Helmut König; 40.5mm, 34.45g: obverse depicts emblem of the Center, which is the stylized twin Hebrew letters "Mem" and "Mem" (for Moses Mendelssohn) above simple boxes with the text names of the Center at the University of Potsdam and the Foundation of the New Synagogue of Berlin "Centrum...
Lot #125 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
East Germany (GDR): 775th Anniversary of Dessau 1213-1988 / Mendelssohn bust medal (1988); in bronze, by Helmut König; 40.5mm, 31.35g: depicts arms of the city of Dessau on obverse and left-facing bust of Moses Mendelssohn on reverse. Of note is that both the city and the medalist were based in East Germany (GDR) of that time, and nevertheless Konig depicted a Jew on the medal (albeit his figure looks more...
Lot #126 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Great Britain: Nathan Mayer Rothschild death memorial medal in bronze; by Joseph Moore (not marked); size: 61mm; weight: 101.4g. Obverse: 3-lined Latin legend based on Rothschild's initials, "Nummis Maximus Reperitur." ['the greatest is found in coins']; date of death in Roman numerals below, on 2 lines "OB JUL. XXVIII MDCCCXXXVI" [obiit - he died] July 28 1836. Reverse: right-facing Rothschild with name above, "Pub. by Hyam...
Lot #127 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Hungary: Dr. Armin Vambery 80th birthday uniface bronze plaquette, 1912; by Jenő [Eugene] Körmendi–Frim, minted by Ludvig E. of Budapest; size: 59.5x60 mm; weight: 128.7g. Left profile of Vambery with latin numerals for birthday. Commissioned by Hungarian scientific associations in 1911 for the occasion. Vambery (born Hermann/Ármin Bamberger/Wamberger) was a Jewish Turkologist and...
Lot #128 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Hungary: Albert Einstein uniface bronze medal by László Csontos, ND; size: 92.25mm; weight: 170.4g. Csontos (born 1925) made a series of large uniface portrait medals of famous men of science, but his depiction of Einstein is the most original and artistic.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $179....
Lot #129 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Palestine/Yishuv: [Rabbi] Dr. Gotthard Deutsch silvered bronze plaquette by Bezalel, maker-marked; size: 46 x 69.5mm; weight: 85.9g. Uniface plaquette depicting left-facing bust of Deutsch, with his name and dates of birth and death below, flanked by Stars of David on either side. Deutsch was a Rabbi, theologan and scholar or Jewish history.
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Lot #130 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Israel: Ze'ev Jabotinsky 20th anniversary of death commemorative medal in silver, 1960, by Shmuel Kretchmer; size: 33.25mm; weight: 24.4g. Obverse depicts bas-relief of left-facing Jabotinsky with his name and dates of birth and death in Hebrew. On reverse bas-relief of Israel and both banks of the Jordan river, with quotation from Jabotinsky's poem (oddly, laid out from left to right), "This...
Lot #131 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Israel: Ze'ev Jabotinsky 20th anniversary of death commemorative medal in bronze(?) 1960, by Shmuel Kretchmer; size: 31.25mm; weight: 17.3g; plain rim. Obverse depicts bas-relief of left-facing Jabotinsky with his name and dates of birth and death in Hebrew. On reverse an image of Jabotinsky's tomb and quotation from his anthem for the Betar movement, "To Die - or Conquer the Hill". In BU...
Lot #132 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Netherlands: Shlomo Ansky ("An-ski") medal of the Dutch Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam, circa. 1979; cast bronze (no discernable maker mark); 76mm, 134.8g: features a portrait of An-ski in a tarboosh hat (see photo) adorned by the legend "Joods Historisch Museum" on obverse, and a Yiddish dedication to him in Hebrew letters on the reverse ("Yiddischer Kultur-Verein 'Sh. An-Ski'") and the dates 1921-1979 over an image...
Lot #133 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Russia/USSR: Heinrich Heine bronze medal by A. A. Manuilov, 1974; size: 60mm; weight: 124.15g. Obverse depicts right-facing profile of Heine, his name and his years of birth and death below. On reverse a waving banner with quotation from one of Heine's works. Ordinarily the marks of the minting company and the date appear at the edge: here it looks like the date was double-stamped and deformed....
Lot #134 - Medals: Jewish Personalities
Russia/USSR: Alexander [Borisovich] Goldenveyzer (Goldenweiser) Centennary bronze medal by Igor Sergeevich Komshilov (1929-), 1975; size: 60mm; weight: 104.35g. Goldenveizer (1875 - 1961) was a prominent Jewish-Russian pianist, composer, teacher and writer; artistic director of the Central Music School of the Conservatory and creator of one of the largest piano schools in the Soviet Union....
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