Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Unsold
68 photographs in an album of the Solel Boneh Company and 21 assorted photographs by photographer Zechariah Kottler. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Beersheva, Tiberias and elsewhere, [ca. 1920s].
1. "Solel Boneh", album with 68 photographs documenting the construction of historical buildings, road construction and manual labor in the 1920s in Palestine. The photographs show, among other things: the construction of the National Library on Mount Scopus; the construction of the Arza sanatorium near Jerusalem; paving of Herzl Street in Tel Aviv; paving of Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv; construction of the Bialik House in Tel Aviv; paving of the Nes Ziona-Rehovot highway; workers at the Dror cooperative carpentry workshop in Tel Aviv; the power plant in Haifa; the power plant in Tiberias; construction of the "big hut" in Degania Alef; the military cemetery in Beersheva; as well as quarries, engineering machines, workers and more. On the first pages are photographs of three diagrams drawn by hand. Attached to the binding is a card with a photomontage – structures cut out to form the Hebrew words "Solel Boneh".
2. 21 photographs of sites and figures in Palestine, including: the Old City in Jerusalem; the Tomb of Absalom; interior of Rachel's Tomb; Caesarea; portraits of Jews of various ethnic extractions; and more.
All the photographs are signed in the plate: "Z. Kottler Press, Jerusalem". Nineteen of the assorted photographs are mounted on cardboard boards, with an additional (identical) stamp. In addition, three of the assorted photographs are signed in the hand of Zechariah Kottler, on the cardboard boards (in pencil).
Guy Raz writes about Zechariah Kottler in his book "The Photographers of Palestine" (Mapa, 2003): "Zechariah Kottler was active in Jerusalem, as attested by the stamp that appears on his pictures. In the years 1921-1924 he was the photographer of the Solel Boneh Company. Kottler's works appear in an album published by the company, most are 15X10 cm in brown / blue / black hues. These works display the photographer's professional and aesthetic use of light".
Total of 89 photographs. Photo size: approx. 11X16 cm (some are smaller). Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition. Blemishes and light stains to some. Tiny holes to a number of photographs. Album: approx. 24.5X33 cm. Stains and minor blemishes to leaves. The binding has been professionally restored (new spine). Rubbing, stains and blemishes to the binding's original parts. Holes and minor blemishes to cardboard boards.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
1. "Solel Boneh", album with 68 photographs documenting the construction of historical buildings, road construction and manual labor in the 1920s in Palestine. The photographs show, among other things: the construction of the National Library on Mount Scopus; the construction of the Arza sanatorium near Jerusalem; paving of Herzl Street in Tel Aviv; paving of Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv; construction of the Bialik House in Tel Aviv; paving of the Nes Ziona-Rehovot highway; workers at the Dror cooperative carpentry workshop in Tel Aviv; the power plant in Haifa; the power plant in Tiberias; construction of the "big hut" in Degania Alef; the military cemetery in Beersheva; as well as quarries, engineering machines, workers and more. On the first pages are photographs of three diagrams drawn by hand. Attached to the binding is a card with a photomontage – structures cut out to form the Hebrew words "Solel Boneh".
2. 21 photographs of sites and figures in Palestine, including: the Old City in Jerusalem; the Tomb of Absalom; interior of Rachel's Tomb; Caesarea; portraits of Jews of various ethnic extractions; and more.
All the photographs are signed in the plate: "Z. Kottler Press, Jerusalem". Nineteen of the assorted photographs are mounted on cardboard boards, with an additional (identical) stamp. In addition, three of the assorted photographs are signed in the hand of Zechariah Kottler, on the cardboard boards (in pencil).
Guy Raz writes about Zechariah Kottler in his book "The Photographers of Palestine" (Mapa, 2003): "Zechariah Kottler was active in Jerusalem, as attested by the stamp that appears on his pictures. In the years 1921-1924 he was the photographer of the Solel Boneh Company. Kottler's works appear in an album published by the company, most are 15X10 cm in brown / blue / black hues. These works display the photographer's professional and aesthetic use of light".
Total of 89 photographs. Photo size: approx. 11X16 cm (some are smaller). Condition varies. Good-fair overall condition. Blemishes and light stains to some. Tiny holes to a number of photographs. Album: approx. 24.5X33 cm. Stains and minor blemishes to leaves. The binding has been professionally restored (new spine). Rubbing, stains and blemishes to the binding's original parts. Holes and minor blemishes to cardboard boards.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Unsold
75 photographs portraying Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and other Jewish settlements in Palestine. Palestine, [ca. 1920s].
In the collection: • 24 photographs of Haifa, including photographs of the Hejaz railway station, the memorial constructed in honor of the train, Haifa bay prior to the construction of the port, HaCarmel Street in Haifa, cemetery for World War I casualties and more. • 17 photographs of Jerusalem - Valley of Josaphat, Nablus Gate, Tiferet Israel synagogue, Allenby hotel, Bezalel buildings, Alliance school, Rachel's Tomb, and more. • Galei Aviv casino in Tel-Aviv. • Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel-Aviv. • 29 photographs of colonies and settlements – Kineret; the great yard and the cowshed in Merhavia; main building and Karl Netter's grave in Mikve Israel; Ben Shemen; Great synagogue; palm tree boulevard and water tower in Rishon LeZion; Rehovot; and more. • Factory for cardboard boxes in Tel-Aviv. • More.
Some of the photographs were retouched by hand, probably for printing purposes. Numerous photographs are titled on the back, a small number in pen and the majority in pencil (Hebrew and German).
The provenance: archive of Gershon Ben, owner of "Pirsum Ben" advertising agency in Tel-Aviv.
Enclosed: Gershon Ben's business card.
Average size: 16.5X11.5 cm (one 14X9.5 cm photograph and one 17X14 cm photograph). Good condition. Minor blemishes and tears to a number of photographs. A tear reinforced with adhesive tape on one photograph.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
In the collection: • 24 photographs of Haifa, including photographs of the Hejaz railway station, the memorial constructed in honor of the train, Haifa bay prior to the construction of the port, HaCarmel Street in Haifa, cemetery for World War I casualties and more. • 17 photographs of Jerusalem - Valley of Josaphat, Nablus Gate, Tiferet Israel synagogue, Allenby hotel, Bezalel buildings, Alliance school, Rachel's Tomb, and more. • Galei Aviv casino in Tel-Aviv. • Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel-Aviv. • 29 photographs of colonies and settlements – Kineret; the great yard and the cowshed in Merhavia; main building and Karl Netter's grave in Mikve Israel; Ben Shemen; Great synagogue; palm tree boulevard and water tower in Rishon LeZion; Rehovot; and more. • Factory for cardboard boxes in Tel-Aviv. • More.
Some of the photographs were retouched by hand, probably for printing purposes. Numerous photographs are titled on the back, a small number in pen and the majority in pencil (Hebrew and German).
The provenance: archive of Gershon Ben, owner of "Pirsum Ben" advertising agency in Tel-Aviv.
Enclosed: Gershon Ben's business card.
Average size: 16.5X11.5 cm (one 14X9.5 cm photograph and one 17X14 cm photograph). Good condition. Minor blemishes and tears to a number of photographs. A tear reinforced with adhesive tape on one photograph.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
81 photographs documenting the establishment of residential communities, pioneer work, and people in Palestine. Palestine, 1920s – late 1930s (a few photographs are from the early 1940s).
The collection appears to contain photographs by two different photographers:
• Forty-four photographs, titled by hand on the back (Hebrew), from the 1920s to early 1940s. Among them: Kibbutz Yagur near the time of its founding, 1925; the first huts in Kfar Hasidim, 1925; Tel Amal (today Nir David) near the time of its founding, 1937; the establishment of Kibbutz Maoz Haim in 1937; the establishment of Kibbutz Hanita in 1938; children carrying saplings for a Tu bi-Shevat celebration in Kiryat Anavim; women and men studying Torah together in Kvutzat Rodges (Kvutzat Yavne of today); Three panoramas (each consisting of two photographs) – Rosh Pina, Binyamina and Mount Hermon above the Hula Valley; and photographs of Metula, Kfar Giladi, Beit Alfa, Nahalal and other places.
Enclosed: A list (duplicate of the handwritten original) with serial numbers and description of the contents of some of the photographs. The name Meir Greenberg (the photographer?) appears at the top of the list.
Approx. 9X14 – 12X17.5 cm. Condition varies. Overall good condition.
• Thirty-seven photographs, titled and dated on the back (English), from the years 1936-1938. Among them: A sentry armed with a rifle guarding a group of bathers near Maoz Haim; the gate of Atlit on the day of its establishment, 1938; laundresses in Kibbutz Degania; a sword-swallower in Tiberias; thatched Arab houses near Yesud HaMa’ala; a passing Arab peddler, with a donkey as pack-animal, in the Batei Warsaw neighborhood in Jerusalem; a Magen David Adom vehicle on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, 1938; and more.
Approx. 11.5X8.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The collection appears to contain photographs by two different photographers:
• Forty-four photographs, titled by hand on the back (Hebrew), from the 1920s to early 1940s. Among them: Kibbutz Yagur near the time of its founding, 1925; the first huts in Kfar Hasidim, 1925; Tel Amal (today Nir David) near the time of its founding, 1937; the establishment of Kibbutz Maoz Haim in 1937; the establishment of Kibbutz Hanita in 1938; children carrying saplings for a Tu bi-Shevat celebration in Kiryat Anavim; women and men studying Torah together in Kvutzat Rodges (Kvutzat Yavne of today); Three panoramas (each consisting of two photographs) – Rosh Pina, Binyamina and Mount Hermon above the Hula Valley; and photographs of Metula, Kfar Giladi, Beit Alfa, Nahalal and other places.
Enclosed: A list (duplicate of the handwritten original) with serial numbers and description of the contents of some of the photographs. The name Meir Greenberg (the photographer?) appears at the top of the list.
Approx. 9X14 – 12X17.5 cm. Condition varies. Overall good condition.
• Thirty-seven photographs, titled and dated on the back (English), from the years 1936-1938. Among them: A sentry armed with a rifle guarding a group of bathers near Maoz Haim; the gate of Atlit on the day of its establishment, 1938; laundresses in Kibbutz Degania; a sword-swallower in Tiberias; thatched Arab houses near Yesud HaMa’ala; a passing Arab peddler, with a donkey as pack-animal, in the Batei Warsaw neighborhood in Jerusalem; a Magen David Adom vehicle on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem, 1938; and more.
Approx. 11.5X8.5 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,000
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Approximately 140 real-photo postcards and photographs of farmers and pioneer workers. Palestine, [first half of the 20th century. Most of the postcards and photographs are from the 1920s and 1930s].
The photographs show the daily life of laborers and construction workers in Palestine in the first years of the Yishuv and Jewish settlements throughout the country: construction workers in Tel Aviv, Herzliya and other places; workers mining zifzif (sand for construction purposes) in the Tel Aviv sands; workers building the Tel Aviv Port; workers paving roads; Jewish stonemasons; workers in various factories, including the potash mining plant at the Dead Sea, the Silikat brick factory in Tel Aviv, the Lodzia textile factory, the Shemen factory and others; pioneers plowing, pruning, picking and wrapping oranges, and cultivating the soil; settlement houses and first fruits celebrations in settlements such as Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Yesud HaMa'ala, Kfar Hassidim, Bnei Brak, Gesher and others; milking cows at Mikve Israel; group portraits of pioneers, including photographs and postcards depicting the "Riga Group", "Polish Pioneers" and "the Caucasus Pioneers"; Shomrim; and more.
Some of the photographs are marked with stamps of the photographers, including Yaakov Ben-Dov, Falu Zivlin, Z. Brill, Y. Gliksman and others. Some of the photographs are titled in the plate or on the reverse.
Approx. 7X11.5 cm to 9X14 cm. All of the photographs are divided on the reverse to be used as postcards. Some were mailed. Condition varies. Stains, creases and minor blemishes.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The photographs show the daily life of laborers and construction workers in Palestine in the first years of the Yishuv and Jewish settlements throughout the country: construction workers in Tel Aviv, Herzliya and other places; workers mining zifzif (sand for construction purposes) in the Tel Aviv sands; workers building the Tel Aviv Port; workers paving roads; Jewish stonemasons; workers in various factories, including the potash mining plant at the Dead Sea, the Silikat brick factory in Tel Aviv, the Lodzia textile factory, the Shemen factory and others; pioneers plowing, pruning, picking and wrapping oranges, and cultivating the soil; settlement houses and first fruits celebrations in settlements such as Rishon LeZion, Rehovot, Yesud HaMa'ala, Kfar Hassidim, Bnei Brak, Gesher and others; milking cows at Mikve Israel; group portraits of pioneers, including photographs and postcards depicting the "Riga Group", "Polish Pioneers" and "the Caucasus Pioneers"; Shomrim; and more.
Some of the photographs are marked with stamps of the photographers, including Yaakov Ben-Dov, Falu Zivlin, Z. Brill, Y. Gliksman and others. Some of the photographs are titled in the plate or on the reverse.
Approx. 7X11.5 cm to 9X14 cm. All of the photographs are divided on the reverse to be used as postcards. Some were mailed. Condition varies. Stains, creases and minor blemishes.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Maps, Travelogues, Photography
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Photograph album from the groundbreaking ceremony of Hanita as part of the "Tower and Stockade" operation. Hanita, 1938-1939.
The album contains 98 photographs presenting the first days of groundbreaking and establishing the settlement: groups from the core group of founders; the stone house of Upper Hanita and the mosaic found in its foundations; construction of the tower, the stockade and the first huts; the tent camp; visit of David Ben Gurion and Chaim Weizmann to Hanita; workers in the fields and drilling of a water well; the view seen from the early settlement; and portraits of some of the fallen in the battle for Hanita, including Aryeh Lusky, Avraham Katz, Ze'ev Anev and Yehezkel Munchik.
Appearing in the beginning of the album is a photomontage titled "Work in Hanita". An additional photograph, not mounted in the album, shows a group of Hanita's conquerors on groundbreaking day, including the point's commander Dov Yermiyah (photographed by Faivel Kaplansky; signed and titled in the plate).
Kibbutz Hanita was one of the prominent settlements of the "Tower and Stockade" effort undertaken by the Jewish community in 1936-1939 in order to expand its borders. The core of founders, made up of Haganah fighters and called "the Conquerors' Group", alongside members of the Field Companies strike force commanded by Yitzhak Sade, additional forces and civilian groups, reporters and photographers (including Zoltan Kluger), in a convoy of dozens of vehicles and pack animals, broke ground at Hanita on 21 March 1938 and immediately began constructing the settlement. Ten of Hanita's founders – Notrim (Jewish police officers) and Haganah members – were killed in the line of duty during the first months.
All of the photographs are mounted in the album. An illustration of a tower appears on the binding with the Hebrew title "Hanita" inscribed beneath.
Album: 30X22 cm. Photographs: 6X8.5 cm on average. Some of the photographs are smaller or larger. Good overall condition. Tears and open tears to tissue guards (some reinforced with adhesive tape. One tissue guard is restored with a pasted paper strip). Two new tissue guards. Stains and blemishes to binding. The spine's edges are reinforced with adhesive tape.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The album contains 98 photographs presenting the first days of groundbreaking and establishing the settlement: groups from the core group of founders; the stone house of Upper Hanita and the mosaic found in its foundations; construction of the tower, the stockade and the first huts; the tent camp; visit of David Ben Gurion and Chaim Weizmann to Hanita; workers in the fields and drilling of a water well; the view seen from the early settlement; and portraits of some of the fallen in the battle for Hanita, including Aryeh Lusky, Avraham Katz, Ze'ev Anev and Yehezkel Munchik.
Appearing in the beginning of the album is a photomontage titled "Work in Hanita". An additional photograph, not mounted in the album, shows a group of Hanita's conquerors on groundbreaking day, including the point's commander Dov Yermiyah (photographed by Faivel Kaplansky; signed and titled in the plate).
Kibbutz Hanita was one of the prominent settlements of the "Tower and Stockade" effort undertaken by the Jewish community in 1936-1939 in order to expand its borders. The core of founders, made up of Haganah fighters and called "the Conquerors' Group", alongside members of the Field Companies strike force commanded by Yitzhak Sade, additional forces and civilian groups, reporters and photographers (including Zoltan Kluger), in a convoy of dozens of vehicles and pack animals, broke ground at Hanita on 21 March 1938 and immediately began constructing the settlement. Ten of Hanita's founders – Notrim (Jewish police officers) and Haganah members – were killed in the line of duty during the first months.
All of the photographs are mounted in the album. An illustration of a tower appears on the binding with the Hebrew title "Hanita" inscribed beneath.
Album: 30X22 cm. Photographs: 6X8.5 cm on average. Some of the photographs are smaller or larger. Good overall condition. Tears and open tears to tissue guards (some reinforced with adhesive tape. One tissue guard is restored with a pasted paper strip). Two new tissue guards. Stains and blemishes to binding. The spine's edges are reinforced with adhesive tape.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Maps, Travelogues, Photography
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Thirty-three photographs documenting the establishment of the kibbutzim Tel Yitzchak, Maoz Haim, Machanayim and other settlements, as part of "Tower and Stockade" operation. Ca. 1938-1939.
Most photographs are from the groundbreaking days, and they document construction of fences, building guarding posts, tent camps and building towers in the new settlements. Among the photographs: arrival of construction materials to the area of Tel Yitzchak; Akiva group leaving the gate of Maoz Haim on its way to establish Neve Eitan; settlers arriving in Kibutz Machanayim, towards its resettlement for the third time; Menachem Ussishkin visiting one of the Metzudat Ussishkin settlements on Lag BaOmer; Avraham Hartzfeld participating in building a gravel wall in one of the settlements; Haim Bograshov congratulating a group of pioneers after construction of a tower; and more.
The photographs are pasted to black paper leaves, some are titled and dated by hand.
Approx. 10X15 cm (one photograph is larger). Paper leaves: approx. 20.5X18 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Most photographs are from the groundbreaking days, and they document construction of fences, building guarding posts, tent camps and building towers in the new settlements. Among the photographs: arrival of construction materials to the area of Tel Yitzchak; Akiva group leaving the gate of Maoz Haim on its way to establish Neve Eitan; settlers arriving in Kibutz Machanayim, towards its resettlement for the third time; Menachem Ussishkin visiting one of the Metzudat Ussishkin settlements on Lag BaOmer; Avraham Hartzfeld participating in building a gravel wall in one of the settlements; Haim Bograshov congratulating a group of pioneers after construction of a tower; and more.
The photographs are pasted to black paper leaves, some are titled and dated by hand.
Approx. 10X15 cm (one photograph is larger). Paper leaves: approx. 20.5X18 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Maps, Travelogues, Photography
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Fourteen press photographs, most of them from the time of the Great Arab Revolt. Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Bethlehem, London and other places, 1936 (two photographs from 1930 and one from 1938).
Among the photographs: five photographs of Haj Amin al-Husseini and members of the Arab Higher Committee (one from a visit of the committee members in London, in 1930); the Arab commander Fawzi al-Qawuqji and his soldiers; a turned over train locomotive after an attack near Lod; smoke rising above houses set on fire in Tel-Aviv; tent camp of Scottish soldiers near Mount Ebal; clash between British soldiers and stone-throwers in Jaffa; British soldiers near a church in Bethlehem; and more.
On the back of most of the photographs are information notes for the press (in French, one in English) and by them appear ink-stamps: France-Press, Wide World Photos, Trampus, Keystone View Company and other stamps.
Size and condition vary. Average size: 13X18 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Markings and paint on the photographs of the Arab Higher Committee. Stains and blemishes (mostly slights, on the back). Traces of pasting and handwritten inscriptions on the back (ink and colored pencil).
Among the photographs: five photographs of Haj Amin al-Husseini and members of the Arab Higher Committee (one from a visit of the committee members in London, in 1930); the Arab commander Fawzi al-Qawuqji and his soldiers; a turned over train locomotive after an attack near Lod; smoke rising above houses set on fire in Tel-Aviv; tent camp of Scottish soldiers near Mount Ebal; clash between British soldiers and stone-throwers in Jaffa; British soldiers near a church in Bethlehem; and more.
On the back of most of the photographs are information notes for the press (in French, one in English) and by them appear ink-stamps: France-Press, Wide World Photos, Trampus, Keystone View Company and other stamps.
Size and condition vary. Average size: 13X18 cm. Good-fair overall condition. Markings and paint on the photographs of the Arab Higher Committee. Stains and blemishes (mostly slights, on the back). Traces of pasting and handwritten inscriptions on the back (ink and colored pencil).
Category
Maps, Travelogues, Photography
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
Seven press photographs from the period of the Great Arab Revolt. Hebron, Jerusalem and other locations, 1936-1939.
The photographs show, among other things: Jewish farmers attempting to extinguish fires started by arson in the Jezreel Valley in 1936; British riflemen returning fire at Arab rioters in Jerusalem’s Old City in 1936; The home of the British governor of the city of Hebron safeguarded with sandbags, 1938; Barclays Bank branch in Hebron after an attack in 1938; a line of Jewish Notrim marching on Mount Carmel, in 1939; and more.
The photographs are ink-stamped on the back with different stamps, and information notes for the press (English) are pasted on six of them. A newspaper clipping with the article alongside which the photograph was published is pasted on the back of one of the photographs.
Size and condition vary. Average size: approx. 23X18 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases, stains and blemishes (mostly slight). Labels on the back of some photographs. One photograph has a long tear at the edge (reinforced with adhesive tape); and another photograph has a (small) note in ink in the margin. One of the photographs is partially colored.
The photographs show, among other things: Jewish farmers attempting to extinguish fires started by arson in the Jezreel Valley in 1936; British riflemen returning fire at Arab rioters in Jerusalem’s Old City in 1936; The home of the British governor of the city of Hebron safeguarded with sandbags, 1938; Barclays Bank branch in Hebron after an attack in 1938; a line of Jewish Notrim marching on Mount Carmel, in 1939; and more.
The photographs are ink-stamped on the back with different stamps, and information notes for the press (English) are pasted on six of them. A newspaper clipping with the article alongside which the photograph was published is pasted on the back of one of the photographs.
Size and condition vary. Average size: approx. 23X18 cm. Good-fair condition. Creases, stains and blemishes (mostly slight). Labels on the back of some photographs. One photograph has a long tear at the edge (reinforced with adhesive tape); and another photograph has a (small) note in ink in the margin. One of the photographs is partially colored.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
15 photographs of British soldiers and vehicles, presumably during the Great Arab Revolt. [Palestine, 1936-1939].
The photographs depict British soldiers, among others near an overturned locomotive near Lod, securing armored convoys and dismantling a rocks and barrels barricade on a road; tanks destroying a wooden shack, smoke rising above houses in a village, a soldier with a machine gun among sand sacks fortifications on the beach, and more.
The photographs are divided on the back to be used as postcards.
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good condition. A handwritten note on the bottom of one photographs.
The photographs depict British soldiers, among others near an overturned locomotive near Lod, securing armored convoys and dismantling a rocks and barrels barricade on a road; tanks destroying a wooden shack, smoke rising above houses in a village, a soldier with a machine gun among sand sacks fortifications on the beach, and more.
The photographs are divided on the back to be used as postcards.
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good condition. A handwritten note on the bottom of one photographs.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
An album of photographs that belonged to a British soldier who served in R.A.F. Station Ramla. Ramla, Jaffa and other places in Palestine and Egypt, 1936-1939.
The album contains 92 photographs, titled and dated by hand (English), among them: • Numerous photographs of Ramla: general view, residences, markets and local inhabitants. • Group photographs of Royal Air Force soldiers in Ramla. • Photographs of a camel polo game. • Photograph of a horse race in Jaffa. • Photographs of Arab farmers doing traditional agricultural works. • Photographs of a Picnic in the Judean Mountains, in the vicinity of the village of Artuf. • Photographs from a journey to Egypt in 1939, mostly of views along the Nile. • and more.
Some of the photographs are ink-stamped on the back (one is stamped "Royal Air Force Official Crown copyright reserved").
92 photographs, approx. 5.5X5.5 cm to 16.5X21.5 cm. Album: 23X29 cm. Good condition. Creases and tears at corners of a number of photographs. Leather binding, bound with a string, with minor blemishes and tears (mostly to spine and margins).
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
The album contains 92 photographs, titled and dated by hand (English), among them: • Numerous photographs of Ramla: general view, residences, markets and local inhabitants. • Group photographs of Royal Air Force soldiers in Ramla. • Photographs of a camel polo game. • Photograph of a horse race in Jaffa. • Photographs of Arab farmers doing traditional agricultural works. • Photographs of a Picnic in the Judean Mountains, in the vicinity of the village of Artuf. • Photographs from a journey to Egypt in 1939, mostly of views along the Nile. • and more.
Some of the photographs are ink-stamped on the back (one is stamped "Royal Air Force Official Crown copyright reserved").
92 photographs, approx. 5.5X5.5 cm to 16.5X21.5 cm. Album: 23X29 cm. Good condition. Creases and tears at corners of a number of photographs. Leather binding, bound with a string, with minor blemishes and tears (mostly to spine and margins).
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Maps, Travelogues, Photography
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Photograph album that belonged to a ghaffir in the Jewish settlement police who joined the British Army at the outbreak of World War II. The album contains approx. 270 photographs documenting the period of the Arab Revolt (1936-1939 Riots) and the years of service of the album's owner in the Jewish settlement police and the British Army. Palestine, 1930s (most of the photographs are dated 1939).
Most of the photographs are captioned by hand (in Hebrew and English) on the album's leaves. Mounted alongside the photographs on some of the album's leaves are paper cutouts – headlines, insignias of British Army units (written and colored by hand), and more.
Photographs include: • Photos depicting the construction of Farradiyya (Shefer) police fort in the Upper Galilee. • Photos depicting the daily life of Notrim in the Jewish settlement police. • Six photos from the period of the Great Arab Revolt: a train that passed over a landmine, burning fields, British soldiers at a train station and more. • Photos of soldiers in various units of the British Army, including the Jewish Attached Police (a Notrim unit annexed to the British Army), the Royal East Kent Regiment, the Royal Army Service Corps (for transport and supply), and more.
Some of the photographs were taken during training; most were taken in Haifa (including at the airport used by the Royal British Air Force), Acre, Nablus and Jenin. • Photograph of soldiers on the beach, captioned: "The illegal immigrant ship 'Asimi' on the horizon". • Photographs of Haifa (the port, the Bat Galim neighborhood and the casino, the French Carmel, and more), Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities. • And more.
Enclosed: • "Badges of Rank", a printed leaf with a table showing the badges of various ranks in the British Army, Navy and Air Force. • About 20 photos that belonged to the album's owner, from later years.
Approx. 270 photos, arranged in the album using mounting corners. Photo size varies, album size: 30X24 cm. Good overall condition. Tears and minor blemishes to some of the photographs. A number of mounting corners are missing (and some are not original). A number of photographs are loose. Stains and tears to tissue guards (some tears are reinforced with adhesive tape). Stains and blemishes to album's binding. Strips of adhesive tape on binding's margins.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Most of the photographs are captioned by hand (in Hebrew and English) on the album's leaves. Mounted alongside the photographs on some of the album's leaves are paper cutouts – headlines, insignias of British Army units (written and colored by hand), and more.
Photographs include: • Photos depicting the construction of Farradiyya (Shefer) police fort in the Upper Galilee. • Photos depicting the daily life of Notrim in the Jewish settlement police. • Six photos from the period of the Great Arab Revolt: a train that passed over a landmine, burning fields, British soldiers at a train station and more. • Photos of soldiers in various units of the British Army, including the Jewish Attached Police (a Notrim unit annexed to the British Army), the Royal East Kent Regiment, the Royal Army Service Corps (for transport and supply), and more.
Some of the photographs were taken during training; most were taken in Haifa (including at the airport used by the Royal British Air Force), Acre, Nablus and Jenin. • Photograph of soldiers on the beach, captioned: "The illegal immigrant ship 'Asimi' on the horizon". • Photographs of Haifa (the port, the Bat Galim neighborhood and the casino, the French Carmel, and more), Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities. • And more.
Enclosed: • "Badges of Rank", a printed leaf with a table showing the badges of various ranks in the British Army, Navy and Air Force. • About 20 photos that belonged to the album's owner, from later years.
Approx. 270 photos, arranged in the album using mounting corners. Photo size varies, album size: 30X24 cm. Good overall condition. Tears and minor blemishes to some of the photographs. A number of mounting corners are missing (and some are not original). A number of photographs are loose. Stains and tears to tissue guards (some tears are reinforced with adhesive tape). Stains and blemishes to album's binding. Strips of adhesive tape on binding's margins.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
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Maps, Travelogues, Photography
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $2,750
Including buyer's premium
Approximately 280 black and white photographs documenting the participation of male and female Jewish soldiers in units of the British Army during World War II. Tel Aviv, Haifa, Taranto, Treviso, Vienna, Tripoli, Cairo and elsewhere in Europe and the Middle East, ca. 1942-1946.
• Approximately 80 photographs of soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, including: brigade soldiers arriving at Taranto port in Italy; soldiers riding in an armored vehicle on their way to the Italian front; traversing a snow-covered mountain in Italy; visit of brigade soldiers to Herzl's grave in Vienna; photographs of brigade commander Levi Benjamin; visit of Moshe Sharet to the unit; assembling a machine gun; tent camps; and more.
• Approximately 200 photographs of Jewish soldiers serving in different units of the British Army, including: fourteen photographs of Jewish women serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Tel Aviv and Haifa; two photographs of Jewish soldiers from the Buffs unit; two group photographs of soldiers from the air defense unit in Tel Aviv; as well as photographs of soldiers performing boating exercises on the Yarkon River, removing landmines, extricating vehicles, festive meals, photographic portraits and more.
Some of the photographs are captioned, dated and dedicated by hand on verso (Hebrew and English), and some are marked with ink stamps of various photographers: The Orient Press Photo Company [Zoltan Kluger], Ephraim Erde, Photo Orient, Photo: S. Fuks (Shimon Fuks), and other stamps.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
• Approximately 80 photographs of soldiers of the Jewish Brigade, including: brigade soldiers arriving at Taranto port in Italy; soldiers riding in an armored vehicle on their way to the Italian front; traversing a snow-covered mountain in Italy; visit of brigade soldiers to Herzl's grave in Vienna; photographs of brigade commander Levi Benjamin; visit of Moshe Sharet to the unit; assembling a machine gun; tent camps; and more.
• Approximately 200 photographs of Jewish soldiers serving in different units of the British Army, including: fourteen photographs of Jewish women serving in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in Tel Aviv and Haifa; two photographs of Jewish soldiers from the Buffs unit; two group photographs of soldiers from the air defense unit in Tel Aviv; as well as photographs of soldiers performing boating exercises on the Yarkon River, removing landmines, extricating vehicles, festive meals, photographic portraits and more.
Some of the photographs are captioned, dated and dedicated by hand on verso (Hebrew and English), and some are marked with ink stamps of various photographers: The Orient Press Photo Company [Zoltan Kluger], Ephraim Erde, Photo Orient, Photo: S. Fuks (Shimon Fuks), and other stamps.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
Category
Maps, Travelogues, Photography
Catalogue