Monthly employment booklet of the "Contractural Cooperative Office of the Jewish Workers of TLV", dated November 194- (not written) & made out to a "driver"; on inside pages, a list of numerically coded work-places, the number of hours worked at each, a numerical code for the type of work performed & signature of authorizing supervisor. The cooperative was formed in 1930 and merged with "Solel Boneh" in 1943.
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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 #50226LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Lot #50227LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
"Shaarei Briuth" monthly medical-hygenic journal, vol. 2, No. 6 (June 1932), 24 pgs not incl. cover; edited by David Aryeh Friedman & printed by "Herzlia" press in TLV. Articles by Dr. A. David, Dr. Moshe Neumann, Dr. Freund & more; several illustrated advertisements (mostly BAYER)
Lot #50228LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Promotional booklet for "Youth Aliyah", 1935; printed in Germany for YA Conference in Amsterdam in Sept.; 32 pages incl cover (loose). Photo-illustrated, w/statistical charts + map of Palestine w/YA settlements on back cover. YA founded same day that Nazi Party came to power in Germany (30-01-1933), to protect German Jewish youth by sending them to pioneer training programs in Palestine after elementary school; initiative...
Lot #50229LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Theodor Herzl's Zionistische Schriften (Zionist Writings), 2 parts in 1 volume, published by Dr. Leon Kellner through Judischer Verlag (1908); 312+312pps +additional pages; incl. photographs. Published in limited edition of 200 copies; back over loose, spine partly loose & top frayed. Kellner (1859-1928) was a Jewish English lexicographer, grammarian, Shakespearian scholar & political...
Lot #50230LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
War of Independence era gas rationing voucher issued by the religious Bukharian "Rechovot" neighborhood in Jerusalem - this being near "front line" of battle for the city: unused form printed in Hebrew (i.e. not Yiddish) & references "Hatzer" in address section - here literally meaning "yard" as per neighborhood's style & not Hassidic affiliation + 4 attached stubs for each gallon to...
Lot #50231LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
WWII era gas rationing voucher: issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine through Shell Oil Co.; dated 2 Jan(?) 1940 & issued in Hadar (Haifa), for 4 gallons of benzine for car #397 (originally 861 & crossed out); on reverse instructions for the regional inspector to fill out all the details in the order forms & receipts before releasing them to whoever he has authorized to receive the fuel; with...
Lot #50232LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Jewish immigration to Palestine: 4x post-War Department of Migration - Immigration Office documents addressed to S. Kwart of J'lem District Court on behalf of: 1) Eisig Ziegler/Siegler, a visa for Palestine (one doc via British Embassy in Warsaw, another via Passport Control Dept. of Foreign Office London - both reference same ref. #) & both tied by Sacher unlisted cachets oval "...
Lot #50233LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Unused certificate of purchase of a "bond for debt held by the bearer of the government of Eretz Israel", c. 1948: issued by the firm "Eretz Israel Financing" of 102 Allenby St. Tel Aviv as per the terms printed below. "Government of Eretz Israel" didn't formally exist & referred to the national leadership of the pre-State 'Yishuv': it issued bonds in 1944-46 and also instituted an "emergency time" insurance program in...
Lot #50234LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
1939 White Paper "Crucial Day" (Yom haPkuda) protest emblems - paper "steward" ('Sadran') brassard & "Vaadat Yom haPkuda" ("Crucial Day" Committee) banner. Day after release of WP (limiting Jewish immigration to Pal. to 75,000 over next 5 years, eve WWII), on May 18th, the national institutions of Yishuv declared a day of strikes & protests against WP + began est. of a Jewish army by enlisting all 18 year olds, who...
Lot #50235LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Lot x14 taxi, transport, fuel ration & entertainment tickets, Israel c. 1950s-80s: incl. 3x 1950-51 austerity era JNF-J'lem car fuel vouchers for 1, 2 & 4 liters, endorsed by the JNF w/stamp + signature & cancelled; 4x 1950s-60s "Aviv Taxi" single & return tickets (series 10, 11, 33 & 39), w/branch contact numbers on reverse; 1958 Taxi Hazvi receipt; 1966 "Einsenbach Taxi Service...
Lot #50236LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Two documents related to Freemasonry in Israel: 1) 7-08-1950 dated receipt on "Mizpah" Lodge stationary for payment of 1 Lira from brother B. Levinson for "Sefer HaZohar"; 2) 3-03-1950 dated typewritten invitation to general meeting of the "Bat Zion" lodge of the Bnot Brit in Jerusalem + mention of condolences & congratulations to various members. "Mizpah" is lodge #6, founded 1933 by...
Lot #50237LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Lot 3x illustrated Jewish National Fund numbered telegram forms (ND) c. early 20th C., by Y. Bodkar; all written in German. If held up to light, some handwritten text is visible on the blank reverse; on one (#3400), a IV 1924 postmark from Czech town of Uherský Ostroh is visible tied to a stamp (seems embedded in the form - unusual).
Lot #50238LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Three documents related to Freemasonry in Israel: 1) 17-09-1947 dated meeting invitation & newsletter of the Jordan R.A. Chapter #663 of "Supreme Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Scotland, District of Palestine, Syria & Egypt" - founded 1931 by Maj. Clement Whitlock "Daddy" Cowell, both Arab & Jewish members; 2) 2 copies of meeting requests w/agendas of "The Lodge of the Holy City"...
Lot #50239LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Rosh Hashana 1948-49 "Doar Ivri" postcard by Palphot depicting images of the IDF (soldiers marching, flags of navy, air force & State), sailors marching, tank column, cavalry, artillery & planes, w/Hebrew legend "Happy New Year | Israel Defence Forces" & handwritten year "1948"; on reverse dedication "For a Good and Blessed New Year from your son Zvulun" to parent in Paris (probably enclosed in envelope &...
Lot #50240LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Vera Weizmann hand-written message in Hebrew on face of personal calling card: "She expresses with this her deep thanks for your sharing in her sorrow"; written in 3rd person singular but written by her: based on style of expression, the reference is to the passing of her husband, the first President of Israel, in Nov. 1952.
Lot #50241LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Samuel (Shmuel) Hugo Bergman handwritten message in Hebrew on back of business card: personal message to "Micha" & signed "Bergman Family"; on front, stationary reads "Rector / Professor (handwritten)" - probably dates to 1935-38, when Bergman served as the Hebrew University's first Rector. Born in Prague he was good friends with Franz Kafka & Max Brod (his publisher); founded the 'Brit Shalom'...
Lot #50242LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
President Gerald Ford signed White House visiting card, c. 1974-77. In US-Israel relations, Ford's tenure was marked by his policy of "reassessment" (March-Sept 1975) of those relations in light of his annoyance w/Israel's position in the post Yom Kippur War negotiations w/Egypt - this called by then PM Rabin as "an innocent-sounding term that heralded one of the worst periods in American-Israeli relations"; reaction to this...
Lot #50243LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Bezalel art school student's enrollment booklet - period facsimile, 18pg incl cv: issued to Shulamit Vitenberg of Jerusalem for the year 1923, and includes grades for 1924-25, her photograph stamped by the school's cachet; list of teaching staff includes Zeev Raban, Moshe Morro, Meir Gur-Aryeh, Abel Pann, Shmuel Ben-David (Davidov), Aharon Shaul Schor & Boris Schatz - with signatures next...
Lot #50244LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Lot 6x childrens' booklets / journals, mostly religious, c. 1960's: 5x booklets of the "LaMatkhil" (For the Beginner) series, "Stories of the Fore-Fathers", "Story of Rabbi Akiva", "Rosh HaShana / High Holidays", "Exodus from Egypt" & "Stories of Kibbutz Deganya" as told by its founders + 1 photo/illustrated booklet on religious occasions and memorial days.
Lot #50245LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Lot 4x childrens' color illustrated booklets, c. early 1950s: 1) "The Brooding Bird" & another w/cover missing, probably "The Brave Pioneers"; both shaped as books & both probably published by Tapuach Educational Books, series 9 (Aug. 1951). 2) 2x illustrated childrens' Passover Hagadot: one 2-tone blue/red w/cover (loose & frayed edges), printed by Arieli Press TLV, 16 pgs incl cover & another 2-tone black/...
Lot #50246LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Childrens' 7th birthday color greeting card w/4 inside pages, with dedication form & story "Flowers in the Garden", c. early-mid 1950s, unattributed manufacture.
Lot #50247LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Childrens' color-illustrated book "For our Children", 1945, illustrated by Eize & Z. Tzulschein; published by "Mercaz Kupat Holim" of the Histadrut haClallit (General Workers' Union), printed by "Achdut" Tel Aviv; 18 pages + cover. Includes 2 tooth-related stories + a riddle/puzzle; near-mint condition.
Lot #50248LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Children's periodical "Eshkolot" ('Grape Clusters') booklet C, by Alexander Ziskind Rabinovich (Az"r), circa. 1907; publ. by Yizrael of Jaffo & printed Jerusalem (as no printing press outside J'lem); artwork (signed on image) by "Bezalel | Y. Stark | Jerusalem"; distributed locally by Meir Dizengoff, Jaffa (soon to be TLV Mayor); 24 pages + cover (includes 2 stories). 2nd Aliya era...
Lot #50249LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Membership card #1 of the "Committee for Popular Lectures named after [Chaim Nachman] Bialik | Jerusalem", issued for 1939 & made out to Prof. Unna; on back, handwritten message "Please give to the family of Prof. Unna permission to enter for the first year" & signed by T. Ben-[unclear]. Card is stamped on front & back by the committee's oval cachet but titled on front "Peoples' House (Beit Ha'am...
Lot #50250LA - Israeliana > Ephemera
Print of engraving of Jerusalem by T. S. Woodcock of New York based on a painting by William Marshall Craig (painter to His Royal Highness the Duke of York); 27.4 x 21.7cm
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