Germany: Jewish circumcision ("Brit Mila") silver medal, 1837-38, by Aaron Kohn; size: 41mm; weight: 23.4g. Obverse: 7 lines of Hebrew prayer during the circumcision: "Our Lord and Lord of our forefathers sustain this child [name] for his father and mother" and "Happy will be the father by the progeny of his loins and rejoiced will be the mother by the fruit of her belly. As is written"; Kohn's name in exergue. Reverse: 4-...
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 #50083LA - Numismatics > Jewish ritual purpose/theme
Germany > Prussia: Jewish silver calendar medal, 1804/5565, by Daniel Friedrich Loos; 44mm, 19.25g. Obv.: shining sun in center w/latin "1804" & Heb. "5565" dates + 3 rings around w/text & dates; title at top "Calender". Rev.: calendar w/moon phase symbols, Jewsh holidays & Prussia's royal family (Friedrich Wilhelm III) birthdates below. Of Jewish interest are the references and dates for "...
Lot #50084LA - Numismatics > Jewish ritual purpose/theme
Germany > Frankfurt: copper-coated bronze token for wedding of Siegmund Rosenbaum & Dora Hamburger, 1898; not maker-marked; 3.95cm, 21.4g. Obv.: Heb. leg (Song of Songs) "On the Day of Their Wedding & on the Day of Their Hearts' Happiness on A' of Rosh Chodesh Shvat [1st day month of Shvat, of year] 658 Excluding Thousand Year [w/o incl. '5' in "5658" - 24 January 1898]; 3 cities listed: Frankfurt am Main, Mannheim...
Lot #50085LA - Numismatics > Jewish ritual purpose/theme
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 [...
Lot #50086LA - Numismatics > Jewish ritual purpose/theme
Bulgaria > Sophia: Jewish burial society "Chevra Kadisha" members metal and enamel pin in bronze(?), 1910, possibly by Strakhil Miloshev of Sophia (unmarked); size: 20.5 x 20mm; weight: 2.75g. Pentagon shaped pin: shovel & axe w/Star of David; Bulgarian leg. transliterated from Hebrew, "Chevra Kedusha(sic) Burials(?) Sofia 1910". Rev.: safety-pin + maker's mark. The Sophia branch of "Chevra Kadisha" existed prior to...
Lot #50087LA - Numismatics > Jewish ritual purpose/theme
Bulgaria > Sophia: Jewish burial society "Chevra Kadisha" members metal & enamel jubilee, 1935; bronze(?); by Strakhil Miloshev of Sophia; 4.5g, 22.5 x 21mm. Wreathed round pin w/coffin device at center w/Star of David emerging from behind (with rays) & transliterated Bulg. leg. above/below "цедекъ вееметъ | юбилейна" 1921 1935 - "Tzedek Ve Emet [Justice and Truth] Jubilee 1921-1935".
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