Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5

Bulgaria > Sophia: Jewish burial society "Chevra Kadisha" members metal jubilee, 1935; bronze(?); not maker-marked; size: 26.5 x 22mm; weight: 5.55g. Stretched semi-hexigonal shaped pin with wreath branches at base; at center emblem of coffin with Star of David emerging from behind (with rays) and legend in Bulgarian (partially transliterated from Hebrew) "цедекъ вееметъ | софия | юбилейна" 1921 1935 - "Tzedek Ve Emet [Justice and Truth] Sofia Jubilee 1921-1935". Abraham (Avraham) Astruc (died 1878) of Sophia may have been the founder of the society (ref: Moshe Gaon "Oriental Jews in Eretz Israel", 1938).