Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $120
Unsold
Issa Sawabini, photograph of a man (in a studio). Jaffa, 1916.
Glued to a cardboard mat with the photographer’s information: I. Sawabini, Photographer, Jaffa, Palestine. Penciled description and date on the verso. This photographer is not mentioned in the Holy Land Photography literature. 5.5x8.5cm, on a 7x11cm cardboard mat. Good condition. Light damages to the edges of the mat.
Glued to a cardboard mat with the photographer’s information: I. Sawabini, Photographer, Jaffa, Palestine. Penciled description and date on the verso. This photographer is not mentioned in the Holy Land Photography literature. 5.5x8.5cm, on a 7x11cm cardboard mat. Good condition. Light damages to the edges of the mat.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
Including buyer's premium
Erez Israel, file containing 32 photograph tablets. [London?: Keren HaYesod Headquarters Publishing?, c. 1924-1925].
High quality black and white photographs of settlements and cities in Eretz Israel and new neighborhoods being established. The photographs are described in Hebrew, Yiddish, English and German.
16x23.5cm tablets, good condition, few stains. 17x24.5cm file, good-fair condition, few tears.
High quality black and white photographs of settlements and cities in Eretz Israel and new neighborhoods being established. The photographs are described in Hebrew, Yiddish, English and German.
16x23.5cm tablets, good condition, few stains. 17x24.5cm file, good-fair condition, few tears.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $180
Sold for: $225
Including buyer's premium
Forty-two souvenir postcards of Palestine, mounted on Bristol board leaves. The majority of the images are of Jerusalem and the rest of Nazareth, Jericho, Tiberias and Jordan. Most of the postcards were printed in Hamburg. At the beginning and the end of the album are two original photographs of the participants in front of the Dome of the Rock. Handwritten annotations on postcards and photographs, in German. Photographs 14.5x11.5cm, 17x12cm, album 32.5cm. Good condition.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $100
Unsold
Real-photo postcards, signed and annotated on the plate: Tobacco packaging in Gedera, [1904]; "Photographer M. Amitai". 9x14cm. Good condition, several stains and creases. Photographer does not appear in Israeli photography literature.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $150
Sold for: $200
Including buyer's premium
Five real-photo postcards, two of which feature artist Ziona Tager (1900-1988), native of Jaffa, "First Holy Land artist”. Three bear a dedication in her handwriting: One is signed "Ziona Tager”; on another postcard dated 1919 she writes to her friend, “Let’s meet each other again, alive and healthy in our beloved land and city after a long and tough two-year exile” (reference to the expulsion of the residents of Tel-Aviv on the eve of Passover, 1917).
8.5x13.5cm. Good, varying condition.
8.5x13.5cm. Good, varying condition.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $180
Unsold
Two photographs of a parked goods-train, probably in the Tel Aviv railway station. Signed with the photographer's ink-stamp: Zvi Aroshkes (Oron). Second half of the 1920s.
The first photograph shows a locomotive and wagons of a Mandate train and an Egyptian train, with train workers standing beside them; the second photograph is of wagons loaded with a cargo of mechanical equipment.
17x11.5cm, mounted on cardboard 30x23.5cm. Photographs in good-medium condition, with some stains. Mounts in fair condition.
The first photograph shows a locomotive and wagons of a Mandate train and an Egyptian train, with train workers standing beside them; the second photograph is of wagons loaded with a cargo of mechanical equipment.
17x11.5cm, mounted on cardboard 30x23.5cm. Photographs in good-medium condition, with some stains. Mounts in fair condition.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $150
Including buyer's premium
1. Machine plowing near the Kishon, Haifa, September 1927. Spanish description on the verso. 12x18cm. Fair condition. Tears, wrinkles and stains.
2. Photograph featuring a vegetable garden and fruit-bearing trees. Mounted on cardboard stamped “Tzalmania ‘Shulamit’, Haifa, Rehov HaShuk”, [1924]. 10x15cm, cardboard 16.5x24cm . Good condition.
2. Photograph featuring a vegetable garden and fruit-bearing trees. Mounted on cardboard stamped “Tzalmania ‘Shulamit’, Haifa, Rehov HaShuk”, [1924]. 10x15cm, cardboard 16.5x24cm . Good condition.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Five photographs showing workers paving the first road in the Achuza neighborhood on Mount Carmel, 1926-1927/1929. Some are annotated on the plate or in handwriting on the reverse: "In memory of the time spent paving the road", "Paving a road in Achuza 1929". * Group photograph, most probably of the inauguration ceremony of the "Zichron Yosef" school, the first school in Achuza, 1927/1928. Total of 6 photographs. Size and condition varies.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
Twelve photographs from the 1920s-30s relating to the construction of the power plant in Naharayim. Some are annotated and dated in pencil on the reverse (at a later date): "Surveyors under the ancient Roman bridge before starting construction in Naharayim", "A group of surveyors on its way to work near Naharayim", tents for the surveyors, and two photographs of Pinchas Rutenberg, one with Herbert Samuel and the other with Winston Churchill [1921]. Various sizes and conditions, [some are possibly later printings of the original photographs?].
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $238
Including buyer's premium
Two real-photo postcards: Violated Torah scrolls in Hebron, 1929. * Victims of the 1929 Palestine riots in Jerusalem [photo of the corpses]. Good condition, stains.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $120
Sold for: $150
Including buyer's premium
Group photograph of a wind-instrument orchestra at the third "HaPo'el Games" sport event. Tel Aviv, 1932. 22.5x14.5cm, mounted on cardboard 35x29cm. Good condition with slight damages to the edges of the mount.
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Auction 15 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
June 1, 2011
Opening: $100
Unsold
Zvi Oron (Oroshkes), four photographs of the presentation ceremony of the JNF "Degel Yerushalyim" .[Jerusalem, September 1934].
"Degel Yerushalayim" [Jerusalem Flag] was awarded every year to a school excelling in its JNF-related activities. In 1934 the flag was presented to the Rishon LeZion School. These photographs document the ceremony attended by Menachem Ussishkin, Chairman of the JNF and Nahum Sokolov, President of the Zionist Organization. One of the photographs shows Sokolov delivering a speech. 13x8cm, good condition.
"Degel Yerushalayim" [Jerusalem Flag] was awarded every year to a school excelling in its JNF-related activities. In 1934 the flag was presented to the Rishon LeZion School. These photographs document the ceremony attended by Menachem Ussishkin, Chairman of the JNF and Nahum Sokolov, President of the Zionist Organization. One of the photographs shows Sokolov delivering a speech. 13x8cm, good condition.
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