Austria > Vienna: Ludwig August von Frankl Jewish Community recognition medal, 1880; struck in bronze(?); by Carl Radnitzky; 29.1g, 39.75mm. Obv.: left facing Frankl; leg. "L:A : Frankl Ritter V:Hochwart". Rev.: coat of arms of "Jewish Religious Community" + date '1880' above; motto in Germanic script below"By Word and Deed"; rim leg. "The Friends and Fellow Officers of the Israelite Religious Community in...
Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5
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Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5
Our new mail auction opens 1 Oct. and runs until 20:00 Israel-time on Wed. Oct. 25th. The sale features a nicely developed and balanced selection of 661 lots of high quality items covering ancient to modern numismatics & exonumia; Judaica (religious books, Rabbinic letters and signatures, Hassidic items, medallic items and ephemera) and Judaic tokens & medals; Israeliana; Jewish, Israeli & Arabian militaria and philately. There are 661 single-item and multiple-item lots, something for every taste and interest. More information is available here.
The philatelic offering is our best yet, highlighted by an extraordinary assembly of postal history documenting the Arab-Israeli conflict (1947 to present); WWII postal links w/Palestine; ‘Baghdad overland mail’; 1948-era mail incl. Israeli interim-period, emergency + early foreign postal links, besieged towns, early postage dues & mail of Arab armies in Palestine; Mandate & Israeli postal history; Mandate cachets & postal markings; Red Cross & POW mail; censored mail; British WWI EEF mail from Egypt; rare Jerusalem postmarks; Jewish/Zionist stamps; Jewish Brigade & displaced persons mail.
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Lot #50102LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Austria-Hungary > Vienna: Salomon Mayer Rothschild 70th birthday bronze medal, 1844; by Konrad Lange; 64.6g, 49mm. Obv.: family's coat of arms; leg. "Für Seine Freunde Zur Feyer Seines Siebenzigsten Geburtsfestes IX. Sept. MDCCCXLIV" ['For his friends on his seventieth birthday celebrations 9 Sept. 1844']. Rev. left facing Salomon; leg. "S[alomon] M[ayer] Baron von Rothschild | Born 9 Sept. 1774". Forrer...
Lot #50103LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Britain: Nathan Mayer Rothschild death memorial medal in bronze, 1836; by Joseph Moore (not marked); 61mm, 101.4g, 4.5mm thick. Obv.: 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. Rev.: right-facing Rothschild w/name above, "Pub. by Hyam Hyams"...
Lot #50104LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Austria: Carl Andorfer commemorative medal, 1893; struck in silvered bronze(?); by Franz Xavier Pawlik (Austria); 32.5mm, 20.15g; thickness: 2.75mm. Obv: Andorfer's profile left, w/abbrev. leg. "born in Vienna 1852" & Pawlik's name engraved on shoulder. Rev: dedication in Ger. surrounded by ornamental wreath "Co-founder of the Coins and Medals Club of Vienna | A Token from Your Friends". Medallic strike,...
Lot #50105LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Austria: Gustav Mahler cast bronze plaque by Franz Stiasny, ND (c. 1930's), mounted on wooden display; size (plaque only): 54.5 x 63mm; weight (whole unit) 173.3g. Right-facing relief profile of Mahler w/name on lower right; "F. Stiasny" in upper left corner. Mahler (1860-1911) was Jewish-Austrian, considered the leading composer & conductor of his generation; the medallist Stiasny (b. Franz Czasny, 1872-1941; Forrer v.5...
Lot #50106LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Germany(?): Theodore Herzl uniface bronze portrait plaque by Fritz (Fred) Kormis, c. 1910s-1920s; 52.5 x 60.5mm, 104.55g. Kormis was a Jewish sculptor & medalist, born in Germany and active between 1910-1977; emigrated to Holland (1933) and then to Britain (1934). Freidenburg references this plaquette in GJPM-59; probably dates to the art-deco period, from Germany, as unmentioned in Polak's book on Dutch...
Lot #50107LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Austria: Joseph [von] Wertheimer commemoration medal in silver by Carl Radnitzky, 1867; 44.5mm, 34.85g; thickness: 2.75mm. Obv. leg.: "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 Heb. Proverbs quot. "A Faithful Man Shall Abound with Blessings" (dots over...
Lot #50108LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
France: Alfred Dreyfus affair medallion (ND); copper(?); no artist/makers mark; 28.5mm, 8g: obv: busts of Alfred Dreyfus, Emil Zola & Fernand-Gustave-Gaston Labori (Dreyfus lawyer); rev: busts of Major Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy & Major Mercier du Paty de Clam. As medallion does not favor one party over another, may date from the period of Dreyfus's re-trial, before his full exoneration (when there was still some...
Lot #50109LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
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.
Lot #50110LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
France: 2nd Zionist Congress struck medal in bronze (1898); by Jewish sculptor/medallist Samuel Friedrich Beer; 63mm, 110.75g. Obv.: allegorical figure pointing to a new dawn/horizon for the Jewish people. Rev.: Biblical quotation ex Book of Yekhezkel: "Behold and I take the sons of Israel from among the nations and I have brought them to their land". Beer was a personal friend of Herzl's; the movement's paper described the...
Lot #50111LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Germany > Prussia: Daniel Itzig 70th birthday commemoration medal, 1793 by Jewish medallists Abraham & Jacob Abramson; struck in pewter/ white metal; weight: 29.25g; size: 45mm; thickness: 3.5mm. Obv.: right-facing Itzig w/ name & Latin birthday ref. Rev.: 'Charity' covering & feeding needy child; Latin leg. "Bene Merenti" ['Well Deserved'] + 3-lines Latin leg. in exergue "Pietas Filii | Natv...
Lot #50112LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Italy: Sir Moses Montefiore centennary bronze struck medal, 1884; unmarked; 4.25cm, 27.1g. Obv.: relief of Montefiore left w/Heb. leg. "My servant Moses is Faithful in All Mine House" [Numbers xii. 7]. Rev.: 7-line It. leg. "A MOSE MONTEFIORE SINTESI PERFETTA DEL GIVDAISMO NEL SVO CENTENARIO VIII KESVAN 5645" (To Moses Montefiore, A Perfect Image of Judaism in his Centennary, 8th [day of month of] Cheshvan 5645 [27 Oct. 1884...
Lot #50113LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Germany: Moses Mendelssohn medium sized relief bust medal, bronze 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.
Lot #50114LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Germany: Moses Mendelssohn large relief bust uniface medal, bronze by J.O.; 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...
Lot #50115LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
France: bronze bas relief medal commemorating Napoleon's marriage to Marie Louise, 1810; by F. Galle (André Galle) & Dominique Vivant Denon; size: 27mm; weight: 7.6g. Obv. Napoleon & wife as Roman figures; Rev. cojoined right-facing busts.
Lot #50116LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Russia: bronze medal commemrating 50th anniversary of Czar Alexander II's Edict of Emancipation, 1911; size: 27mm; weight: 5.8g. Obv. Bust w/leg. "Alexander Emperor and Ruler of All Russia"; rev. scroll device representing 1861 Edict & leg. "In Commemoration of 50th Anniversary of Special Event". This edict enabled certain classes of Jews to settle outside the Pale of Settlement, though it encouraged assimilation.
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Lot #50117LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
US: Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise / Hebrew Union College 70th Anniv. bronze medal, 1945; not marker-marked; 63mm, 88.35g. Obv.: College & leg "HUC | Three Score and Ten" (ref. 46 years since Wise's passing away) & commem. dates 1875 - 1945 + Heb. leg. "Source of Living Waters" at base. Rev.: right bust of Rabbi Wise + name & "Founder". Wise (1819-1900) was Rabbi w/reformist orientation; emigrated to US to lead reform...
Lot #50118LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Jerusalem YMCA "Life Member" metal plaque issued to Humphrey Ernest Bowman, 28 Nov. 1936; 73 x 50.5mm, 41.4g. Bowman (1879-1965) was Director of Education in Colonial Service; dir. of Mandatory Dept. of Education, 1920-36; at Ministry of Information, 1939; special duty w/Foreign Office, 1941-45; donated "Bowman Collection" to Oxford. He saw foreign language cultures as potential political threat to local vernaculars; promoted...
Lot #50119LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Palestine: Rishon LeZion settlement/Herzl commem. bronze token, circa. 1898; not maker-marked; 26mm x 27mm, 6.55g. Obv.: RLZ landscape w/leg. (Yeshayahu, ch. 41) "The first to Zion ['Rishon LeZion'] here they are, and to Jerusalem a portent I shall give" + "Colonia Rishon LeZion"; Heb. date "1882" in exergue. Rev.: left facing Herzl. Rare 3rd variant of RLZ tallions: may commemorate Herzl's visit there on 26 Oct. 1898, whose...
Lot #50120LA - Numismatics > Medals commemorating Personalities & Events
Britain lot x3 Victoria-era tokens: a) "One Penny Model" bimetallic (copper/white metal) token, ND c. 1838; size: 22.5mm; weight: 3.75g | b-c) two mini-momento silvered-bronze tokens of Victoria & Albert, each with bust on one side & dates of birth + marriage/crowning on the other - offered originally in snuff boxes, eg. Windsor Castle Boxes; size: 10.5mm; weight: 0.6g.
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