US > New York: $1 donation token for Jewish "Home of the Sons and Daughters of Israel" home for the aged (Robert Leonard - Obverse C), circa. 1920s; size: 33mm; weight: 10.4g. There was a $400,000 fund drive in 1923 and a $100,000 fund drive in 1928 for the establishment of this home, and this token could have been issued in connection with either of those drives. These tokens were made in such large numbers that...
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 #227 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US > New York: $1 donation token for Jewish Sanitarium for Incurables, 1926; size: 33mm; weight: 10.1g. Obverse depicts image of the structure with legend "The Great Drive For the Incurables Home | Jewish Sanitarium for Incurables 1926". On reverse image of an incurable and legend "Contribution | One Dollar | Luck for a Buck". The institution was founded in 1925 and became the the Jewish Chronic Disease Hospital...
Lot #228 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US: Jewish charity / Good luck token with legend "Guard the Children of the Poor…" around Menorah device and Star of David with Tablets in center on reverse; size: 31.75mm; weight: 8.65g. In Jewish tradition the poorer the person the more pious and devoted to the Torah he is likely to be - therefore being an ideal candidate to be a future scholar of the Torah.
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Lot #229 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US > New York: Rabbi Jacob Joseph High School cornerstone laying commemorative token, 1928; size: 32.75mm; weight: 8.9g. Obverse: 6-lined legend in center "High School of Rabbi Jacob Joseph School 163 Henry St. N.Y.C" + double-ring legend "To Commemorate the Laying of the Corner-Stone Dec. 2nd 1928". Reverse: Tablets; double-ring Hebrew legend with Hebrew date Lammed [30] Kislev 5689. Founded in 1903 & named...
Lot #230 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US > New York (Brooklyn): $1 donation token for Jewish high school, 1928; size: 31.75mm; weight: 11.25g. Obverse: Yeshiva-styled building with "$1oo" below; legend "Help Build the First Jewish High School - Brownsville & East New York". Reverse: students studying in building; legend "Rabbi Chaim Berlin High School | Every Dollar Helps"; date 1928 & Hebrew equivalent on either side; at base, Hebrew legend "Yeshivat...
Lot #231 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US > New York: good luck/fund raising token for Hebrew Kindergarten & Infants Home, circa. 1920s-30s; size: 32.75mm; weight: 7.2g. Obverse depicts image of child within heart-shaped frame of olive branches and legend "Hebrew Kindergarten & Infants Home | 35 & 37 Montgomery St. N.Y.C./Central & Plainview Aves. Far Rockaway". On reverse legend within hear-shaped frame of olive branches "Have a Heart Help the...
Lot #232 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US > Maine > Portland: Jewish Home for Aged good luck token, ND; size: 35mm; weight: 17.05g. Obverse bears image of the building with 25c on either side and the word "Souvenir" below; in double-ringed frame around, the legend "Jewish Home For Aged • Portland - Maine". On reverse images of elderly Jewish man and woman on either side of legend based on quotation from the Bible in Hebrew and English, "Do Not Cast us Off at...
Lot #233 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US > New York: Brooklyn Hebrew Home & Hospital for the Aged 50 cent donation white metal token, c. 1940's; by American Emblem company (AM. EMB. Co.) of Utica, NY; size: 27mm; weight: 5.6g. Obverse: institution's building; legend above & below "Brooklyn Hebrew Home & Hospital for the Aged | Howard & Dumont Avenues Brooklyn, N.Y."; Star of David in between; Hebrew legend below, "Brooklyn Home for the Aged"....
Lot #234 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US: Jewish prayer/good luck tallion with the Cohen's Blessing on obverse & reverse Star of David with the Tablets in center with word "Zion" overprinted, circa. 1950's; size: 25.5 x 30mm; weight: 5.9g. In UNC/BU condition. Being classified here as a "charity/fundraiser" token given in exchange for a donation as unlikely to have served a different purpose (religious Jews don't need this).
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Lot #235 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US: Jewish prayer/good luck tallion with the Cohen's blessing on obverse; on reverse a Star of David with the Tablets in center with word "Zion" superimposed, circa. 1950's; size: 25.5 x 30.75mm; weight: 5.5g. Being classified here as a "charity/fundraiser" token given in exchange for a donation as unlikely to have served a different purpose (religious Jews don't need this).
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Lot #236 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US(?) "Good Luck | Mazel" token with Star of David on one side and couple dancing the 'Hora' dance (with "Hora" below) on the other, circa. Late 1940's/early 1950's; size: 25.5mm; weight: 5.6g.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $29. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the bid level...
Lot #237 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US(?) "Good Luck | Mazel" tallion with Star of David on one side and Tablets of the 10 Commandments on the other (oddly with 5-pointed stars above and not Stars of David); size: 26.5 x 32mm; weight: 7.2g.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $29. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid received once the...
Lot #238 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
Israel/US: United Charity Institutions of Jerusalem good luck token with excerpt of the Cohen's Blessing on reverse and Hebrew word "Mazal" (Luck) in center, circa. 1950's; size: 19 x 23.5mm; weight: 3.2g. Probably given to donors to the institution.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $29. This price will rise by...
Lot #239 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
Israel/US: United Charity Institutions of Jerusalem good luck token with replica of ancient Judean coin (Shekel?) on reverse, circa. 1950's; size: 19 x 23.5mm; weight: 3.3g. Probably given to donors to the institution.
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This lot is being offered in a buy or bid sale format, whose initial buyout price is: $29. This price will rise by about 5-10% for every new bid...
Lot #240 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
Israel: "Yeshiva Meah Shearim" blessing/good luck token, circa. 1960's; bronze; not maker-marked; size: 25.5mm x 30.5mm; weight: 5.8g. Obverse: English legend & Hebrew good wish for "Blessing and Success". Reverse: Star of David & word "Zion" in center. This Jewish religious studies school is one of the most prominent ones in Jerusalem, founded in 1885, and located in the neighborhood of Meah Shearim...
Lot #241 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
Russia: medallion of the Second National Conference of Russian Zionists in Minsk, 1902, inscribed to “Akiva Arieh Weiss | Lodz Representative”; not maker-marked; size (tallion only): 23.75 x 37.5mm; weight: 9.1g. Weiss was a Russian-born jeweler and watchmaker, who emigrated to Palestine in 1906, there founding in time the textile industry, establishing planning and construction companies, a...
Lot #242 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
Palestine (Russia?): Rishon LeZion settlement/Theodore Herzl commemorative token, circa. 1898; bronze; not maker-marked; size: 26mm x 27mm; weight: 6.55g. Obverse: view of Rishon LeZion settlement with legend (Yeshayahu, ch. 41) "The first to Zion ['Rishon LeZion'] here they are, and to Jerusalem a portent I shall give" & "Colonia Rishon LeZion" at base; Hebrew date "1882" in exergue. A rare (3rd) variant of these...
Lot #243 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
Poland: WWI era Zionist Labor Union 3rd Congress sheet-stamped copper token, 1917; not maker-marked; size: 3cm; weight: 8.75g. Obverse: Star of David with dot in center; double-ring Hebrew legend "Third Congress of the Zionist Labor Union in Poland"; small Star of David at base. Reverse: Star of David at center; double-ring with Hebrew dates of the Congress "12-17 [month of] Cheshvan 5678" (28 Oct. - 2 Nov. 1917). In post-war...
Lot #244 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
Palestine/Yishuv: 3rd Aliya era commemorative pin of 3 key Zionist heros, Trumpeldor, Brenner & Gordon, c. 1922; iron body; not maker-marked; size: 24mm; weight: 1.9g. 3-piece construction with photo-montage. All 3 figures passed away between 1920-1922 & were legends in their time, their legacies indicated by the devices below their images: a shield (military - Joseph Trumpeldor), a book (literature...
Lot #245 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
Palestine: Zionist affiliation enamelled pin, circa. 1918-1920's; bronze and enamel; not maker-marked; size: 11.5mm x 53.5mm; weight: 1.4g. Star of David shaped pin in blue enamel with bronze and gilt, bearing the word "Zion" in metal at center.
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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...
Lot #246 - Tokens: Jewish Charities
US: JNF fundraising pin designed as Zionist flag / future flag of Israel - color printed on plastic in shape of flag curved around a pin with loop at top, with legend on reverse "For the Benefit of the Jewish National Fund", circa. 1920's-30's; by Pilgrim Spec. Co., Malden, Mass.; size: 23 x 46mm.
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Lot #247 - Zionist Tokens & Medals
Poland(?): emblem pin of the "Dror" Zionist-Socialist youth movement, circa. 1920s-30s; not maker-marked; 17 x 56mm, 2.7g. Of bronze with red finish, bearing movement's emblem & word "Dror" in Hebrew above (written in a style akin to the estimated date of the pin). Dror founded 1917 in Russia but moved its base to Poland in wake of Russian Revolution. Until a branch was established in Israel in 2006, this was a diaspora...
Lot #248 - Zionist Tokens & Medals
Chile: 20th anniversary commemorative medal of the Zionist Federation ("Federación Sionista de Chile"), 1939; struck in aluminum/alloy; maker-marked "JP"; size (medal only): 28mm; weight: 9.8g. Obverse bears a Star of David at center, with Spanish legend above and below "XX Aniversario" and "Fed. Sionista de Chile". Reverse bears a raised hand drawn out of a Hebrew letter "Kaf" (which means "20" when used as...
Lot #249 - Zionist Tokens & Medals
Palestine: "Tnuat HaNoar HaTzioni" (Zionist Youth) movement pin, circa. 1930's; enamel and bronze; not maker-marked; size: 15.5mm; weight: 1.95g; pin was broken & partly reattached. Movement founded by Yitzhak Steiger in Sambor (1926) as secular apolitical Zionist youth movement, breaking away from Socialist-affiliated "HaShomer HaTzair", but retaining many of its symbols: Star of David (...
Lot #250 - Zionist Tokens & Medals
Austria: 14th Zionist Congress delegate's pin, 1925; bronze and enamel; by M. Hammer of Vienna; size: 28mm; weight: 6g. Round emblem with stylized Hebrew letters "Yud" and "Daled" whose numerical values are "14", with legend in Hebrew around edge, "The 14th Zionist Congress Vienna 5685"; pieces of the enamel are missing. On reverse the soldiered pin is broken off; manufacturer's mark is visible. The 14th...
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