Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics

Assorted Collection of Ephemera – Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine – Autograph Postcard by Leon Simon / Visiting Card with Handwritten Greeting by Menashe Meirowitz

Opening: $200
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
27 paper items – invitations, greeting cards, admission tickets to various events, membership cards of different organizations, and more. Palestine, ca. 1912-1940. Hebrew and English. Included: • Autograph postcard by Sir Leon Simon (1881-1965); signed. Simon was a leading member of the British Zionist movement, author and translator, who took part in drafting the Balfour Declaration. Postcard sent to Michael Lange, on the occasion of the purchase of the "Lange estate" in Zikhron Ya'akov (1913). • Leaflet (one folded leaf) with lyrics and musical notes to a song by Kadish Yehuda Silman, first published the day of the approval of the British Mandate for Palestine by the League of Nations. Jerusalem: Rohld Press, 1922. • Admission ticket to a concert held in Cinema Zion "for the benefit of the victims of the Riots" [1929?]. • Three invitations to receptions held in celebration of King George V's birthday (1927, 1928 and 1933). • Two visiting cards belonging to Menashe Meirowitz, known as "the last of the Biluim". On one card a handwritten greeting to Chaim Weizmann, written by Meyerowitz on the occasion of the Balfour Declaration (1917). • Membership card of the "Jewish Palestinian League of Nations Society", Haifa chapter. Signed by the head of the chapter, Dr. Hillel Yaffe. • Card, designed as an obituary notice of the deaths of Dov, Rivka and Tirza Hoz, Tzvia Chertok (Sharett), Ora Borodovsky and Yitzhak Ben-Ya'akov, who were killed in a traffic collision (1940). • And more. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Establishment of the State of Israel
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Establishment of the State of Israel