Member's pin of the Medical Students Society of Tel Aviv, circa. 1930's; size: 20x22.25mm; weight: 2.4g.
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 #50251LA - Israeliana > Health organizations
Lot #50252LA - Israeliana > Health organizations
Oval pin of the "Health Defenders", c. 1930's-40's; 3.05g, 39.25x25mm. Hebrew legend "Shomrey Briut" at top & "Malben" below (unknown meaning - perhaps acronym of org.); at center, Star of David device with 4 letters of Hebrew word "Malben"; mis-stamped design, doubling in places. Probably a pre-State/early State era elementary- & middle-school student health organization, to educate children in health and hygene...
Lot #50253LA - Israeliana > Health organizations
Oval pin of the "Health Scouts", c. 1930's-40's; 2.95g, 28.25x20mm. Emblem of eye with Heb. legend "Better the Power of Safety than the Power of Therapy" & name "Tzofey Briut" (below). This was one of a few pre-State/early State era elementary- & middle-school student organizations, established to educate children in health and hygene, and to assist the school-nurse. The org's also had their own songs. This badge also...
Lot #50254LA - Israeliana > Health organizations
Lot 3x Polio compaign denominated donation pins, late 1940's-1950's: 2x pins denomated 500- (either 500 mils or Prutot), of which one is mis-stamped & 1x pin denominated 1- (either 1 Palestine Pound or 1 Lira) on shiney brass. Made of die-stamped 'jetons' with simple pin soldiered to back - reminiscent of 1930's "Kofer HaYishuv" tokens, possibly made by same manufacturer. c. 1.2g ea & 16.5 x 26.5mm ea.
Lot #50255LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Enamel emblem pin of Betar revisionist Zionist movement, circa. 1930's-40s; not maker-marked; size: 10.5 x 13mm; weight: 0.65g.
Lot #50256LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Betar tunic button, c.1920's-30s; 1.7g, 17.5mm; not maker-marked; bears the organization's emblem + name on scroll device below.
Lot #50257LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Celluloid emblem pin of the "Mizrachi" religious-Zionist movement, c.1920's; 19 x 42mm, 1.35g. Not maker-marked, probably made in Palestine.
Lot #50258LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Enamel pin of the 10th world assembly of the "Herut-HaTzohar" revisionist Zionist movement, c. 1949; 12 x 14.25mm, 1.5g. "HaTzohar" was founded by Jabotinsky in 1925 & merged with Menachem Begin's "Herut" party in 1949.
Lot #50259LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Oval member's pin of the "Herut Womens Union" (Brit Nashim Herut), c. late 1940's - early 1950's; 37 x 19.75mm, 3.8g. Depicts the Irgun/Etzel emblem of "Greater Israel" at center & bouquets of flowers on either side + legend below. Founded 1935 as "National Womens Union", revisionist-Zionist daycare center operator counterpart to Labour-oriented "Org. of Working Women" & later renamed as here, after "Herut" party (...
Lot #50260LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Member's pin of the "Mapam" (United Workers Party) socialist-Zionist party, circa. 1950's; 12.5 x 13.5mm; 0.9g. Founded Jan. 1948 as a merger of HaShomer HaTzair and Aḥdut ha-Aavodah–Po'alei Zion; originally Marxist-Zionist in its outlook, closely associated w/Kibbutz movement and included many members of the "Palmach".
Lot #50261LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Female-member's pin of the "Mapam" (United Workers Party) socialist-Zionist party, circa. 1950's-60's; 25 x 32mm; 2.6g. Depicts cardiganed female releasing dove & legend "Haverot Mapam" (female members of Mapam).
Lot #50262LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Pin of the Israeli-Soviet Union Friendship Society, circa. 1950's; 20.25mm, 1.25g. Depicts both nation's flag & legend "Friendship | Israel - Soviet Union". Founded in 1949 as "Haaguda LiYedidut Yisrael-Brit HaMoatzot" by the ruling "Mapai" party as a conservative counterbalance to the more enthusiastic "League for Friendly Relations with the USSR" (founded c. 1946).
Lot #50263LA - Israeliana > Political parties
Pin of the Israeli Union of Communist Youth, c. 1950's-60's; 14.5 x 165mm, 1.1g. Depicts wreathed Communist star at center with Israeli flag above & initials "BNKI" in Hebrew + Arabic in exergue. Est. 1924 as youth wing of the pre-State Communist Party; originally Zionist-oriented w/many Jewish members, and from 1949-67 associated with Kibbutz Yad Hanna & supporting a Gadna pre-military youth unit. Emblem has since...
Lot #50264LA - Israeliana > Transport companies
Egged-Eshel bus cooperative hat badge, c. early 1950s; not maker-marked; 26.75 x 28.75mm, 2.8g. "Egged" emblem w/section of Israel (center to north); below, 3 interconncted steering wheels of "Eshed", ea. w/letter of company's 3-lettered acronymed name. In 1951 govt. merged 3 largest public transport co's ("Egged", central Israel; "Shachar", northern Israel; "Drom Yehuda", southern Israel) into 1 co. & called it 'Eshed'...
Lot #50265LA - Israeliana > Transport companies
Egged-Eshel bus cooperative "Service" hat badge, c. early 1950s; not maker-marked; 26.75 x 28.5mm, 2.95g. Period company emblem w/additional banner above & word "In Service" (BeSherut) - probably worn by maintenance workers.
Lot #50266LA - Israeliana > Transport companies
Egged-Eshel bus cooperative "Conductor" hat badge, c. early 1950s; not maker-marked; 26.75 x 28.5mm, 2.95g. Period company emblem w/additional green banner above & word "Conductor" (Mevaker).
Lot #50267LA - Israeliana > Transport companies
Egged-Eshel bus cooperative 'sweetheart' pin, c. early 1950s; not maker-marked; 9 x 36.5mm, 0.5g. Miniature version of period company logo, for wear on collar. Scarce.
Lot #50268LA - Israeliana > Transport companies
Emblem pin probably of pre-cursor to "Dan" bus cooperative, c. 1909+; 20.5 x 22.5mm, 1.5g. Depicts tall winged wheel: the wheel emblem subsequently became the Dan bus cooperative's emblem when est. 1945, however it's predecessor existed from 1909 and this probably was its emblem.
Lot #50269LA - Israeliana > Transport companies
Emblem pin of "HaMekasher" bus cooperative co., c. 1940's-50's; 11.75 x 15.5mm, 1.55g. Design based on the company logo except here initials at center "Sh.A.K." mean "Regular Bus Service" (Sherut Autobus Kavua), rather than the original "Sh.M.I" for "Intercity Automotive Service" (Sherut Mechoniot Ironiim). Founded 1931 & merged with "Egged" in 1967; 4 buses joined the cooperative in 1934 through a member: when his lines...
Lot #50270LA - Israeliana > Transport companies
Emblem pin of "Shachar" transport cooperative, c.1947-1951; 25 x 27.25mm, 7g. Metal & color-paint design of company logo, with name "Shachar" above (acronym for Hebrew "Mass Haifa Service") & initials "Shatz" below (Nationwide Public Service). Founded 1947 & merged with "Egged" & "Drom Yehuda" to form "Eshed" in Nov. 1951. Scarce emblem.
Lot #50271LA - Israeliana > Youth movements
Palestine/Yishuv: first emblem of the Hebrew Boy Scouts, circa. 1918-1920s; not maker-marked (in the style of Bezalel); 17mm, 1.05g. Depicts first emblem of the movement: a date tree super-imposed on a Star of David, with the Hebrew motto "Heye Nakhon" ('Be Prepared') on a scroll below. The Israeli Boy Scouts movement was established in 1918 as the "Hebrew Boy Scouts in Eretz Israel", based along the same lines as Baden-...
Lot #50272LA - Israeliana > Youth movements
Poland(?): emblem pin of the "Dror" Zionist-Socialist youth movement, circa. 1920s-30s; not maker-marked; 17 x 56mm, 2.7g. Of bronze w/red finish, bearing movement's emblem & word "Dror" in Heb. above (written in a style akin to the est. date of pin). Dror founded 1917 in Russia but moved its base to Poland in wake of Russian Revolution. Until a branch was est. in Israel in 2006, this was a diaspora youth movement whose...
Lot #50273LA - Israeliana > Youth movements
Lot 31x pins & awards of the "Ot HaSport" (Sports Award) event, including many variations & metals + annual dated series of awards, from 1942 to 1956 (w/o 1948) & one undated (may be from 1941, start of program); one marked by Kretchmer; a few duplications but a rare grouping hard to assemble. Initiative begun 1940 by Dept. of Physical Fitness of the Vaad Leumi, to run annual physical fitness...
Lot #50274LA - Israeliana > Youth movements
Lot 13x pins & emblems related to the Israeli Boy Scouts movement, except for 2x "Trip to Eilat" pins, no duplication; some variations in manufacture/design.
Lot #50275LA - Israeliana > Youth movements
Lot 8x pins & badges of the Shomer HaTzair (Young Guard) movement, including the 'Sikat HaBogrim' [Graduates] & "Bnei Metzada" ('Sons of Massada) level badges.
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