Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Photograph of Betar member Shlomo Ben-Yosef in court. Photo Brenner, Haifa, 1938.
Ben-Yosef is seen with the two other accused Betar members, Avraham Shein and Shalom Zurabin, during their trial.
The three Betar activists, stood trial after throwing a grenade into a bus as a retaliation attack for murder of Jews during the Great Arab Revolt. The grenade did not explode, however according to British emergency regulations, Ben-Yosef was sentenced to death and executed. Ben-Yosef (1913-1938) was the first of twelve "Olei HaGardom" during the British Mandate.
The photograph is titled in the plate: "Military court in Haifa". Ben-Yosef is marked on the photograph. On the back appears an ink stamp: "Photo Brenner, Haifa".
8.5X6 cm. Good condition. Some stains.
Ben-Yosef is seen with the two other accused Betar members, Avraham Shein and Shalom Zurabin, during their trial.
The three Betar activists, stood trial after throwing a grenade into a bus as a retaliation attack for murder of Jews during the Great Arab Revolt. The grenade did not explode, however according to British emergency regulations, Ben-Yosef was sentenced to death and executed. Ben-Yosef (1913-1938) was the first of twelve "Olei HaGardom" during the British Mandate.
The photograph is titled in the plate: "Military court in Haifa". Ben-Yosef is marked on the photograph. On the back appears an ink stamp: "Photo Brenner, Haifa".
8.5X6 cm. Good condition. Some stains.
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Unsold
A large and impressive photo-album, presented as a gift to Yitzchak Melamed when he retired after 25 years from his position as Director of the Public Works Department. [Jerusalem], 1944.
Album includes: * Twenty photographs of senior role holders in the Mandate Government and group photographs of Public Works workers in various cities (Gaza, Nablus, Haifa, Jaffa, etc), engineers, architects and other colleagues. The photographs are titled on the album leaves, in English. Names of the photographed are printed on the tissue guards bound between the album leaves. * Two professional photographs from Jerusalem (Zion Gate) and Acre, by the photographer Joseph Schweig. * Four drawings in color depicting Melamed's work (one in watercolor), accompanied by words of greetings and short poems, in English.
Yitzchak Melamed was born in Odessa in 1900. At the age of 11 he was sent to Palestine to study in Rosh Pina. Later, his mother and brother joined him. He continued his studies in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. His family was exiled to Egypt during WW I (because of their Russian citizenship) where he studied in a French gymnasium and was granted a French matriculation certificate. Returned with his family in 1919 as a civil servant in the Mandate's government and was promoted to the highest position of a local Jewish civil servant - Director of the Public Works Department and deputy director of the treasury. In 1940 he was awarded with the title of MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) on behalf of King George VI. Served as the Civil Service Commissioner and councellor to the Civil Service Commissioner. Died in Jerusalem in 1968.
Enclosed are several personal documents of Melamed.
22 photographs (approx. 11X16 cm to 27X19.5 cm) and four paintings (approx. 25.5X18 cm to 23X28 cm). Album: 46 cm, in fine leather binding. Good condition. Slight defects to tissue guards and to binding.
Album includes: * Twenty photographs of senior role holders in the Mandate Government and group photographs of Public Works workers in various cities (Gaza, Nablus, Haifa, Jaffa, etc), engineers, architects and other colleagues. The photographs are titled on the album leaves, in English. Names of the photographed are printed on the tissue guards bound between the album leaves. * Two professional photographs from Jerusalem (Zion Gate) and Acre, by the photographer Joseph Schweig. * Four drawings in color depicting Melamed's work (one in watercolor), accompanied by words of greetings and short poems, in English.
Yitzchak Melamed was born in Odessa in 1900. At the age of 11 he was sent to Palestine to study in Rosh Pina. Later, his mother and brother joined him. He continued his studies in the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium. His family was exiled to Egypt during WW I (because of their Russian citizenship) where he studied in a French gymnasium and was granted a French matriculation certificate. Returned with his family in 1919 as a civil servant in the Mandate's government and was promoted to the highest position of a local Jewish civil servant - Director of the Public Works Department and deputy director of the treasury. In 1940 he was awarded with the title of MBE (Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) on behalf of King George VI. Served as the Civil Service Commissioner and councellor to the Civil Service Commissioner. Died in Jerusalem in 1968.
Enclosed are several personal documents of Melamed.
22 photographs (approx. 11X16 cm to 27X19.5 cm) and four paintings (approx. 25.5X18 cm to 23X28 cm). Album: 46 cm, in fine leather binding. Good condition. Slight defects to tissue guards and to binding.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $800
Sold for: $2,250
Including buyer's premium
Palestine 1947, photo-album with photographs depicting the development of Palestine, towns and villages - souvenir from the Jewish Agency. Unknown photographer, 1947. Serbo-Croatian.
Album containing 27 black and white professional photographs depicting the development of Palestine. The album opens with a handwritten introduction; photographs are also titled by hand (Serbo-Croatian).
Among the photographs: an illegal immigrant prior to her deportation, detainees in Atlit internment camp, packagers of oranges in "Mikveh Israel", unloading boxes in Tel-Aviv port, Naharayim, installing a water pipe in the Negev, laying pipes in tunnels to dry swamps, brigade soldiers training on the beach, Dizengoff square in Tel-Aviv, and more.
Size varies, approx. 19X18 cm to approx. 21.5X16 cm (some photographs are slightly smaller or larger). Good overall condition. Some photographs are detached (pasting marks and glue remnants on the back). Some of the album's leaves are cut and wrongly placed. Inscriptions and comments in pencil. Album: 26X30.5 cm. Good condition. Slight defects. Original leather binding.
Album containing 27 black and white professional photographs depicting the development of Palestine. The album opens with a handwritten introduction; photographs are also titled by hand (Serbo-Croatian).
Among the photographs: an illegal immigrant prior to her deportation, detainees in Atlit internment camp, packagers of oranges in "Mikveh Israel", unloading boxes in Tel-Aviv port, Naharayim, installing a water pipe in the Negev, laying pipes in tunnels to dry swamps, brigade soldiers training on the beach, Dizengoff square in Tel-Aviv, and more.
Size varies, approx. 19X18 cm to approx. 21.5X16 cm (some photographs are slightly smaller or larger). Good overall condition. Some photographs are detached (pasting marks and glue remnants on the back). Some of the album's leaves are cut and wrongly placed. Inscriptions and comments in pencil. Album: 26X30.5 cm. Good condition. Slight defects. Original leather binding.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Unsold
Unsere Palästinareise im April 1936 [Our Journey to Palestine in April 1936]. Photo- album. Palestine, 1936.
Album with 45 photographs from Palestine, including photographs of Haifa, Acre, Degania Aleph, Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee, Jericho and the surroundings, Jordan river and the Dead Sea, amphitheater on Mount Scopus, Old City of Jerusalem, the Western Wall and more.
Most photographs are titled on the album leaves; a number of photographs are titled on the back. A number of photographs are dated 1937-1938.
Average size of photographs: 6X9 cm, album: 8.5X11.5 cm. Good condition. Slight damages to album binding.
Album with 45 photographs from Palestine, including photographs of Haifa, Acre, Degania Aleph, Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee, Jericho and the surroundings, Jordan river and the Dead Sea, amphitheater on Mount Scopus, Old City of Jerusalem, the Western Wall and more.
Most photographs are titled on the album leaves; a number of photographs are titled on the back. A number of photographs are dated 1937-1938.
Average size of photographs: 6X9 cm, album: 8.5X11.5 cm. Good condition. Slight damages to album binding.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Unsold
An album of photographs and a translation of a diary recording the journey of Eric (Eliezer) Derzel to Palestine in 1932. German.
1. An album with 72 photographs of Palestine (mounted on the album leaves), including professional photographs from the "Adloyada" celebrations and the "Maccabiah" events in Tel-Aviv, as well as nice photographs from Jaffa, Jerusalem and its vicinity. Most photographs are titled in German (on the leaves). The album opens with the title "Palastina-Reise 1932, II" (first album is missing). Some photographs taken in Alexandria and Italy also appear in the album (not counted).
Size varies, photographs: approx. 6X8.5 cm to 13X18 cm (some photographs appear twice, in the small format and the large format). Good condition. Tears to tissue guards. Album: 23.5X33.5 cm. Good condition. Tear to front binding and slight defects to margins and corners.
2. "My Parents' Journey to Palestine in 1932 - translation from German into Hebrew". Hebrew translation of a diary recording the journey photographed in the aforementioned album (the translation was done by one of the family members late in the 20th century).
[21] leaves, 20 cm. Very good condition.
1. An album with 72 photographs of Palestine (mounted on the album leaves), including professional photographs from the "Adloyada" celebrations and the "Maccabiah" events in Tel-Aviv, as well as nice photographs from Jaffa, Jerusalem and its vicinity. Most photographs are titled in German (on the leaves). The album opens with the title "Palastina-Reise 1932, II" (first album is missing). Some photographs taken in Alexandria and Italy also appear in the album (not counted).
Size varies, photographs: approx. 6X8.5 cm to 13X18 cm (some photographs appear twice, in the small format and the large format). Good condition. Tears to tissue guards. Album: 23.5X33.5 cm. Good condition. Tear to front binding and slight defects to margins and corners.
2. "My Parents' Journey to Palestine in 1932 - translation from German into Hebrew". Hebrew translation of a diary recording the journey photographed in the aforementioned album (the translation was done by one of the family members late in the 20th century).
[21] leaves, 20 cm. Very good condition.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Album with 57 high quality photographs of Palestine. Unidentified photographer, [ca. 1930s].
Many photographs from Jerusalem and the surroundings; photographs from Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, Jericho, and some other places. All the photographs are of the same size. Titled and numbered in the plate. Mounted on the album leaves; bound in a leather binding with a repousée plaque depicting the Tower of David.
Photographs: 11.5X16 cm, good condition. Some photographs are partly detached. Album: 31X44 cm. Good condition. Slight defects at margins.
Many photographs from Jerusalem and the surroundings; photographs from Nazareth, the Sea of Galilee, Jericho, and some other places. All the photographs are of the same size. Titled and numbered in the plate. Mounted on the album leaves; bound in a leather binding with a repousée plaque depicting the Tower of David.
Photographs: 11.5X16 cm, good condition. Some photographs are partly detached. Album: 31X44 cm. Good condition. Slight defects at margins.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
About 80 photographs from Palestine. [ca. 1930s].
Photographs documenting sites, views and people in Palestine - Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Bethlehem, Jericho, Dead Sea, and more. Most photographs are arranged on Bristol leaves (with corner-stickers, on detached leaves, without the album) and numbered; two handwritten leaves with detailed descriptions of each photograph (sometimes with historic or geographic information) accompany the photographs.
Total of about 75 photographs on Bristol leaves + five loose photographs. Average size: 6.5X9 cm. Good to very good condition. Leaves: 23X32.5 cm. Good condition. Torn holes at margins.
Photographs documenting sites, views and people in Palestine - Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Bethlehem, Jericho, Dead Sea, and more. Most photographs are arranged on Bristol leaves (with corner-stickers, on detached leaves, without the album) and numbered; two handwritten leaves with detailed descriptions of each photograph (sometimes with historic or geographic information) accompany the photographs.
Total of about 75 photographs on Bristol leaves + five loose photographs. Average size: 6.5X9 cm. Good to very good condition. Leaves: 23X32.5 cm. Good condition. Torn holes at margins.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Photo album which belonged to a British soldier who served in Palestine and the surroundings. [ca. 1930s].
The album contains 56 photographs portraying views and sites in Palestine and in particular in the Negev (as well as ten photographs from Egypt). Among the photographs: mosque in Beersheba, cemetery for casualties of World War I in Beersheba, Bedouins in the Negev, Bir 'Asluj, loading camels in Gaza, Aqaba port, ship on the Nile, Alexandria, the shore of Tel-Aviv, Haifa port, Arab market in Jerusalem, Nablus Gate, Mosque of Omar, Church of Annunciation, Bethlehem and more. Numerous photographs are titled (in English) on the leaf to which they are attached. Some photographs are also titled on verso.
Photographs: approx. 6.5X5 cm to 10.5X6.5 cm. Album: 28.5X19.5 cm. Good overall condition. Lacking photographs.
The album contains 56 photographs portraying views and sites in Palestine and in particular in the Negev (as well as ten photographs from Egypt). Among the photographs: mosque in Beersheba, cemetery for casualties of World War I in Beersheba, Bedouins in the Negev, Bir 'Asluj, loading camels in Gaza, Aqaba port, ship on the Nile, Alexandria, the shore of Tel-Aviv, Haifa port, Arab market in Jerusalem, Nablus Gate, Mosque of Omar, Church of Annunciation, Bethlehem and more. Numerous photographs are titled (in English) on the leaf to which they are attached. Some photographs are also titled on verso.
Photographs: approx. 6.5X5 cm to 10.5X6.5 cm. Album: 28.5X19.5 cm. Good overall condition. Lacking photographs.
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Album with about 120 photographs, titled by hand on the leaves (English), documenting the service of a soldier in the British Military Engineering forces in Egypt and Palestine (most photographs are from Egypt). Ca. 1930s.
The album includes: * About 15 photographs from Palestine and Jerusalem (Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, Gethsemane, Amrican Colony, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, figures in the Old City, Nazareth, Ramla and more). * Dozens of photographs of bridge and canals (constructing a bridge in Ismailia, assembling a floating bridge on Lake Timsah, attack-bridges for infrantry soldiers, manual ferry, many photographs of sea vessels in the Suez Canal and the sweet water canal in Ismailia, and more). * Dozens of photographs of sites and views in Cairo, Port Said, Ismailia and other places in Egypt (Pyramids, Sphinx, fishermen village, women pumping water, Arab policeman riding a camel, Bedouins in traditional costumes, vendors' carts and more). * More photographs.
Some of the photographs portray, most probably, soldiers from the unit in which the album owner served, during operations of assembling bridges and other operations.
Total of about 120 photographs. Average size: approx. 9X6 cm. Good condition. Slight defects. Album: approx. 21.5X16 cm. Slight damages to margins of leaves. Leather binding, slightly worn.
The album includes: * About 15 photographs from Palestine and Jerusalem (Western Wall, Dome of the Rock, Gethsemane, Amrican Colony, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, figures in the Old City, Nazareth, Ramla and more). * Dozens of photographs of bridge and canals (constructing a bridge in Ismailia, assembling a floating bridge on Lake Timsah, attack-bridges for infrantry soldiers, manual ferry, many photographs of sea vessels in the Suez Canal and the sweet water canal in Ismailia, and more). * Dozens of photographs of sites and views in Cairo, Port Said, Ismailia and other places in Egypt (Pyramids, Sphinx, fishermen village, women pumping water, Arab policeman riding a camel, Bedouins in traditional costumes, vendors' carts and more). * More photographs.
Some of the photographs portray, most probably, soldiers from the unit in which the album owner served, during operations of assembling bridges and other operations.
Total of about 120 photographs. Average size: approx. 9X6 cm. Good condition. Slight defects. Album: approx. 21.5X16 cm. Slight damages to margins of leaves. Leather binding, slightly worn.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $700
Sold for: $875
Including buyer's premium
Album of photographs compiled by a British soldier who served in the Royal Army Service Corps, from his stay in Palestine, [ca. 1938].
The album contains 137 photographs, among them: * Photographs from the sail to Palestine (photographs of soldiers on board of a ship, photographs of the shores of Gibraltar, Algiers and Malta, and more). * Photographs of various sites in Haifa: base of the Army Service Corps, food warehouses, Casino Bat Galim, Mount Carmel lighthouse, Haifa port, and more. * Group photographs of soldiers and photographs recording various activities of soldiers during leisure time (football game in costumes, visiting the pool, military orchestra and more). * More photographs.
The photographs are titled on the album leaves by hand (English) and some are dated 1938; on the inside of the front cover appears the name of the album's owner - "C. A. Baker R. A. S. C.".
137 photographs, 13.5X9 cm (two photographs are larger) in a 40X29 cm album. Most photographs are mounted on the album leaves. Good overall condition. One photograph is missing from one of the leaves. Creases at corners of leaves. Tears and creases to tissue guards. Slight defects to binding of album.
The album contains 137 photographs, among them: * Photographs from the sail to Palestine (photographs of soldiers on board of a ship, photographs of the shores of Gibraltar, Algiers and Malta, and more). * Photographs of various sites in Haifa: base of the Army Service Corps, food warehouses, Casino Bat Galim, Mount Carmel lighthouse, Haifa port, and more. * Group photographs of soldiers and photographs recording various activities of soldiers during leisure time (football game in costumes, visiting the pool, military orchestra and more). * More photographs.
The photographs are titled on the album leaves by hand (English) and some are dated 1938; on the inside of the front cover appears the name of the album's owner - "C. A. Baker R. A. S. C.".
137 photographs, 13.5X9 cm (two photographs are larger) in a 40X29 cm album. Most photographs are mounted on the album leaves. Good overall condition. One photograph is missing from one of the leaves. Creases at corners of leaves. Tears and creases to tissue guards. Slight defects to binding of album.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Album of photographs recording the period during which a British soldier stayed in Palestine. Ca. 1939.
About 230 black and white photographs, mounted on the album leaves and titled by hand (English). Among them:
* About 20 photographs of the military camp in Rehovot (present day "Bilu Camp"): a guard at the gate, stables, panorama of the camp, Arab prisoners at work, streets and houses in the town, and more. * About 40 photographs of sports games and competitions: boxing tournament in "Zrifin" camp, tennis, football and cricket games, hunting and more. * About 60 photographs of encounters with the Arab population: visits in villages and homes, pumping water from a well in the desert, confiscating weapons in Merar Village and more. * Tens of photographs from settlements, sites and towns in Palestine: Jerusalem (Temple Mount, Church of all Nations, Tower of David), the Tel-Aviv shore, Jaffa, Kibutz Hulda, Nes Ziona and other places. * Seven photographs of sites and buildings in Egypt: Pyramids, the Sphinx and more.* More photographs.
The album is bound in a leather binding, with a gilt embossing of the initials "J.N." on front.
Photographs are in various sizes. Average size: 11.5X8 cm. Good overall condition. Slight defects to some photographs. Album: approx. 42X30 cm. Stained leaves, with slight creases. Slight tears and defects at margins of leaves. The binding is worn and slightly defected (mainly at spine, corners and margins). The strap for closing the album is worn and torn into two.
About 230 black and white photographs, mounted on the album leaves and titled by hand (English). Among them:
* About 20 photographs of the military camp in Rehovot (present day "Bilu Camp"): a guard at the gate, stables, panorama of the camp, Arab prisoners at work, streets and houses in the town, and more. * About 40 photographs of sports games and competitions: boxing tournament in "Zrifin" camp, tennis, football and cricket games, hunting and more. * About 60 photographs of encounters with the Arab population: visits in villages and homes, pumping water from a well in the desert, confiscating weapons in Merar Village and more. * Tens of photographs from settlements, sites and towns in Palestine: Jerusalem (Temple Mount, Church of all Nations, Tower of David), the Tel-Aviv shore, Jaffa, Kibutz Hulda, Nes Ziona and other places. * Seven photographs of sites and buildings in Egypt: Pyramids, the Sphinx and more.* More photographs.
The album is bound in a leather binding, with a gilt embossing of the initials "J.N." on front.
Photographs are in various sizes. Average size: 11.5X8 cm. Good overall condition. Slight defects to some photographs. Album: approx. 42X30 cm. Stained leaves, with slight creases. Slight tears and defects at margins of leaves. The binding is worn and slightly defected (mainly at spine, corners and margins). The strap for closing the album is worn and torn into two.
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Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
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Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
March 20, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Collection of photographs depicting prayers and ceremonies of the Samaritan congregation on Mount Gerizim. [Ca. 1940s].
1-2. Two press photographs of Acme Newspictures Inc. (New York) showing a prayer of the Samaritan congregation on Mount Gerizim, Passover 1946.
20.5X15.5 cm, 18.5X18.5 cm. Good condition. Stamped on verso with the agency's ink stamp and titled on a printed leaf pasted to verso.
3-10. Eight photographs of a Passover prayer of the Samaritan congregation members on Mount Gerizim and the ceremony of the sacrificial Passover ritual. Stamped on verso: "Ephraim Haltrecht" (apparently a resident of Nahariya who was one of the designers of the town's insignia; he added to it the inscription in ancient Hebrew script).
7X11.5 cm. Good condition. Slight creases. Penciled inscriptions on verso.
1-2. Two press photographs of Acme Newspictures Inc. (New York) showing a prayer of the Samaritan congregation on Mount Gerizim, Passover 1946.
20.5X15.5 cm, 18.5X18.5 cm. Good condition. Stamped on verso with the agency's ink stamp and titled on a printed leaf pasted to verso.
3-10. Eight photographs of a Passover prayer of the Samaritan congregation members on Mount Gerizim and the ceremony of the sacrificial Passover ritual. Stamped on verso: "Ephraim Haltrecht" (apparently a resident of Nahariya who was one of the designers of the town's insignia; he added to it the inscription in ancient Hebrew script).
7X11.5 cm. Good condition. Slight creases. Penciled inscriptions on verso.
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