Australia: Levy Brothers of Melbourne [Jewish] merchant copper Penny 1855 (A.320, KM #Tn147); size: 33.75mm; weight: 15.85g; in VF+. Obverse: double ring legend: "Levy Brothers • Arcade, Melbourne" and 4-line legend within: "Importers of Fancy Goods". Reverse: 'Justice' with "Australia" above & date in exergue. In 1852 the Levy brothers, Goodman, Nathaniel and Lewis, established a luxury goods warehouse...
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 #190 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Australia > Tasmania: Halfpenny mule token issued by Ruben Josephs, Van Diemen's Land toll gate operator, 1855; minted by W.J. Taylor of London; size: 27.75mm; weight: 6g. Obverse: toll gate with legend around "New Town Toll Gate * R. Josephs *". Reverse: 'Justice' seated on wool bale & commerce symbols; legend "Van Diemen's Land | 1855". Josephs was a convict transported to Australia in 1827, gained...
Lot #191 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Australia > Tasmania: Penny mule token issued by Ruben Josephs, Van Diemen's Land toll gate operator, 1855; minted by W.J. Taylor of London; size: 33.75mm; weight: 14.05g. Obverse: toll gate with legend around "New Town Toll Gate * R. Josephs *". Reverse: 'Justice' seated on wool bale & commerce symbols; legend "Van Diemen's Land | 1855". Josephs was a convict transported to Australia in 1827, gained...
Lot #192 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Austria: Jacob Rothberger (Jewish clothing deparment store) brass token with depiction of the building on reverse, not maker-marked, in AU; size: 23.75mm; weight: 5.45g
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $39. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark...
Lot #193 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Barbados: Moses Tolanto unredeemed Farthing ND, in copper; size: 21.75mm; weight: 4.5g. Obverse: bale with initials "M.T" at top; legend around "Moses Tolanto Barbados". Reverse: barrel at center with initials "MT" at top; legend around "Freedom Without Slavery "; rosette at base. Lacking slash-marks, this is a scarce example of an unredeemed token. Moses Tolano (1814-1852; surname misspelled on token)...
Lot #194 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Egypt: Maspero Brothers Cigarette company bronze token, circa. 1930s; not maker-marked; size: 22.75mm; weight: 4.55g. Obverse: stylized face set against the sun(?); French legend "Maspero Freres Ltd • Caire - Egypte". Reverse: oval eye-like device; French title above & below "Cigarettes Egyptiennes". In VF-EF: even on better grade examples, the bottom stroke of oval device on reverse is unclear (from weak die strike)....
Lot #195 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
France: Alfred Dreyfus of Lyon drapery business promotional token (ND), c. 1880s-90s; not maker-marked; size: 32mm; weight: 8.8g. Obverse 6 lined legend in French: "A La Ville de Lyon | Magasin de Nouveautés | Alfred Dreyfus • | Galarie du Roi No1 | Rue de Bouchers . 42 . 44 | Bruxelles". On reverse 7 lined legend: "A La Ville de Lyon | On a 3 Jours Pour Obtenir | Le Remboursement des Articles | Qui ne Conviendraient Plus |...
Lot #196 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Germany (Poland) > Posen: 15 Wert-Mark octagonal zinc business token of the watthour-meter factory business founded by Jewish electrical-engineer Prof. Dr. Hermann Aron (1845-1913), who invented first accurate watt-hour meter; c. 1917; 21.75 x 21.75mm, 1.95g. His business included factories in London, Paris & Vienna; son Manfred assumed management of business, and with growing anti-Semitism, in 1929,...
Lot #197 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Lot 5x European/Jewish merchant & business tokens, c. early 20th Cent.: 1) Germany: Rudolph Hertzog (manufacturer) of Berlin decagonal brass token; 2) Italy Michelangelo Jesurum & Co. (lace-maker) encased 1 Centisimo token, 1904; 3) Germany: Firma Valentin Manheimer (confectionary) 75th anniversary copper token, 1914, by Ludwig Ostermann (Forrer listed v4 p.335)...
Lot #198 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Lot 17x German & Austrian (1pc) Jewish merchant/business tokens, c. early 20th Cent.: 2x Hermann Tietz of Berlin - 1pf Wertmarke in silvered zinc? + brass 5pf [wertmark]; Ludwig Lowe of Berlin 1 pf token for drink or tea, silvered zinc(?); F. Rosenfeld of Hernals Hauptstraße 49 Vienna 'Geschäfts-Marke' business token in heavy tin; G. V. Lassalle lyre/'...
Lot #199 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Great Britain: lot 4x Isaac Earlysman Sparrow copper farthing tokens: 1) Obverse: "Ascended at Oxford | June 23 1823" & hot-air balloon/ "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" & left portrait, milled rim, in F-VF, Batty-401O; 2) "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" & hot-air balloon/ "Isaac Earlysman 1*8 Sparrow 2*5" & left portrait, milled rim, in F; 3) "Sparrow Nail Merchant • London" & hot-air balloon/ "Sparrow's...
Lot #200 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Great Britain: lot 8x Jewish merchant/business tokens, c. late 18th-19th Cent. 1) New Houses of Parliament/Queen Victoria bronze token by Hyam Hyams of London (goldsmith, watch/clock maker, money changer), designed by Allen & Moore, 1847; 2) Louis Silberberg (tobacconist) 'Habana Cigar Company, 104 Cheapside'/ left-facing portrait tin token, 1866 (bent planchet); 3) Lewis Levy -...
Lot #201 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Great Britain(?): uniface Jewish(?) merchant token bearing value of "1" and name "LEVY" below; size: 19.5mm; weight: 2.85g. Circa. mid-late 19th Century.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $119. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level passes the midway mark between the...
Lot #202 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Great Britain > Birmingham: Jewish merchant token in bronze, Ephraim Nathan, c. 1872; not maker-marked; size: 22mm; weight: 3.45g. Obverse bears legend: "The Noted Shop for Cheap Electro Plate & Cutlery Eph. Nathan 71 Bull St. Birmm." On reverse left facing portrait of Queen Victoria and date 1872. In VF.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose...
Lot #203 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Israel: business momento tallion of "Ha'argaz" (The Box), c.late 1950's-1960s; size: 31.25 x 34.5; weight: 12.85g. Obverse bears company name in Hebrew & English above/below an image of a bus + designer's name/initials in Hebrew - VAAR or VAAB by edge to left to bus; on reverse the Hebrew legend "Steel Furniture" around image of metal file cabinet & 5-digit phone...
Lot #204 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Israeli business token/tallion for Friedman-Tnuva, c.1964-71; size: 31.25 x 34.25mm; weight: 12.05g. Token commemorates a partial business merger between the Friedman Winery (founded 1889) and the Tnuva dairy company: Tnuva purchased half of Friedman in 1964 but unable to incorporate the wine business into its own operations, Tnuva sold its holdings there to Stock wine company in 1971.
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Lot #205 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Israeli business token for ZIM Israel Navigation Co., c.1960s-70s; size: 24mm; weight: 10.95g. Token depicts company emblem on obverse with company name in Hebrew (above) & English (below); on reverse, a replica of a Jewish War-era (66-70 CE) silver Shekel. The design may relate to a 2000-year anniversary sometime between 1966-1970.
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Lot #206 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Romania(?): undocumented bronze token with large letter "K." on obverse & Star of David device on reverse. Possibly a Romanian Jewish business token or a "Kosher" slaughter token - similar to those covered by Schaffer, but unlisted in his catalogue; 2.1g, 20.25mm. Circa. early 20th Century.
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Lot #207 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
Romania, Bucuresci (Hunedoara County, Transylvania) "Jsak [Isaac] Focşaner" Zionist coffee and tea house token for 1 Leu (ND), circa. early 1920's; struck in copper-nickel; no maker marks; weight: 4.1g; size: 25.5mm. Obverse bears narrowed Star of David with Hebrew word "Zion" in center, with Romanian legend around edge "Jsak Focşaner * Bucuresci *"; on reverse "1 Leu" in center. Medallic rotated strike; beeded edge on...
Lot #208 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
South Africa > Orange Free State: Jewish merchant 2 Shilling cupro-nickel token for "Daniel & Hyman" business of Bloemfontein, 1867; not maker-marked; size: 30mm; weight: 6.85g. Obverse bears "2/=" denomination in center and legend in Afrikaans "Goed Voor Daniel & Hyman". On reverse coat of arms of the Orange Free State, and legend in Afrikaans all around "Bloemfontein Oranje Vry Staat 1867". The partners Daniel...
Lot #209 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
United States > Michigan: S. Cohen of Detroit American Civil War-era Jewish business copper token, 1863; not maker-marked; size: 19mm; weight: 3.85g. Obverse bears 5-lined legend "S. Cohen | Clothing | Dealer | 155 Jeff.[erson] Ave. / Detroit." On obverse left facing Indian-head with 13 stars above and date below. In UNC: some surface dirt; lack of edge detail due to quality of the strike.
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Lot #210 - Tokens: Jewish businesses
United States > New York: Simon Steinfeld alcohol depot Civil War era advertising token, ND (1861-1865); struck in copper; maker marked "E. Sigel"; size: 24.5mm; weight: 4.95g. On obverse ornate coat of arms (with letters "L" and "L" on either side of eagle), and legend around edge, "S. Steinfeld Sole Agent for the U.S.". On reverse 7 lines of text "Principal Depot of the French Cognac Bitters 70 Nassau St...
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