Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
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Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $600
Unsold
Five medals with the tetragrammaton. Holland, 1574-1602.
1. Medal from 1574. Obverse: a triangle with Holland's coat of arms below it, and the legend "Lapis Reiectus Caput Anguli". Reverse: the tetragrammaton surrounded by a legend.
2. Medal from 1592, commemorating the liberation of the towns Steenwijk, Ootmarsum and Coevorden by the Dutch army. Obverse: a hand holding a scepter, emerging out of a cloud with the tetragrammaton in it, above town houses. On the margins appears the legend "Zelus Domini Exercituum Fecit Hoc". Reverse: legend in Latin.
3. Medal from 1598. Obverse: three men (representing Spain, Germany and the Catholic inhabitants of Holland), pointing spears and lances towards the sky, surrounded by the legend "Coelum Stolidus qui Territat Armis". Reverse: the three men lying on the ground while fire and lightning are pouring out of a cloud with the tetragrammaton.
4. Medal from 1599. Obverse: the army of Cardinal Andreas von Österreich by the Rhine River. Above them appears the tetragrammaton within a cloud and on the margin appears the legend "Frustra Conatur Inpius". Reverse: the Cardinal with his consultants, surrounded by a legend.
5. Medal from 1602, most probably commemorating the occupation of Grave in Holland. Obverse: the tetragrammaton within flames. Reverse: legend in Latin.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
1. Medal from 1574. Obverse: a triangle with Holland's coat of arms below it, and the legend "Lapis Reiectus Caput Anguli". Reverse: the tetragrammaton surrounded by a legend.
2. Medal from 1592, commemorating the liberation of the towns Steenwijk, Ootmarsum and Coevorden by the Dutch army. Obverse: a hand holding a scepter, emerging out of a cloud with the tetragrammaton in it, above town houses. On the margins appears the legend "Zelus Domini Exercituum Fecit Hoc". Reverse: legend in Latin.
3. Medal from 1598. Obverse: three men (representing Spain, Germany and the Catholic inhabitants of Holland), pointing spears and lances towards the sky, surrounded by the legend "Coelum Stolidus qui Territat Armis". Reverse: the three men lying on the ground while fire and lightning are pouring out of a cloud with the tetragrammaton.
4. Medal from 1599. Obverse: the army of Cardinal Andreas von Österreich by the Rhine River. Above them appears the tetragrammaton within a cloud and on the margin appears the legend "Frustra Conatur Inpius". Reverse: the Cardinal with his consultants, surrounded by a legend.
5. Medal from 1602, most probably commemorating the occupation of Grave in Holland. Obverse: the tetragrammaton within flames. Reverse: legend in Latin.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $800
Unsold
Five skilling and mark coins. Denmark, 1644-1647.
• Four 2-mark coins, 1644, 1645, 1646 and 1647.
• 4-skilling coin, 1645 (?).
Obverse: the monogram C4 [Christian IV, King of Denmark] with a crown and the coin's denomination. Reverse: "lustus ludex" and the tetragrammaton.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
• Four 2-mark coins, 1644, 1645, 1646 and 1647.
• 4-skilling coin, 1645 (?).
Obverse: the monogram C4 [Christian IV, King of Denmark] with a crown and the coin's denomination. Reverse: "lustus ludex" and the tetragrammaton.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $400
Unsold
Two medals with the tetragrammaton. 17th century.
1. Medal commemorating 100 years since the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. [Saxony], 1617.
Obverse: Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, and Martin Luther, across from each other at a table with an open book. Above them is the tetragrammaton inside a rising sun and a Latin legend. Reverse: a furnace and a snake wound around a staff and the inscription "Egyptus et Israel" [Egypt and Israel], and another legend.
Diameter: 41 mm. Fair condition. Defective minting.
2. Silver medal, presumably minted for the new year. [Saxony?], 1626.
Obverse: the Earth, from which two hands emerge, one holding a sword and the other a spade. Above it is a book from which a third hand emerges, stretching upwards. Surrounding the image is the Latin legend "Perando Orando Laborando Consistit". Reverse: the tetragrammaton inside a rising sun and a German legend.
Diameter: 40 mm.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
1. Medal commemorating 100 years since the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. [Saxony], 1617.
Obverse: Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, and Martin Luther, across from each other at a table with an open book. Above them is the tetragrammaton inside a rising sun and a Latin legend. Reverse: a furnace and a snake wound around a staff and the inscription "Egyptus et Israel" [Egypt and Israel], and another legend.
Diameter: 41 mm. Fair condition. Defective minting.
2. Silver medal, presumably minted for the new year. [Saxony?], 1626.
Obverse: the Earth, from which two hands emerge, one holding a sword and the other a spade. Above it is a book from which a third hand emerges, stretching upwards. Surrounding the image is the Latin legend "Perando Orando Laborando Consistit". Reverse: the tetragrammaton inside a rising sun and a German legend.
Diameter: 40 mm.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $300
Unsold
Gold medal, wedding gift. [Germany, 18th century].
Obverse: pair of hands holding a heart, surmounted by the tetragrammaton, inside a rising sun. Surrounding the sun is a legend in German. Reverse: man and woman shaking hands, surrounded by the legend "Also Wird Gesegnet wer den Herrn Fürchtet" [Thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord" (Psalms 128, 4)].
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 3.4 g.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Obverse: pair of hands holding a heart, surmounted by the tetragrammaton, inside a rising sun. Surrounding the sun is a legend in German. Reverse: man and woman shaking hands, surrounded by the legend "Also Wird Gesegnet wer den Herrn Fürchtet" [Thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord" (Psalms 128, 4)].
Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 3.4 g.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $300
Unsold
Six tokens and medals. [England, 19th century].
• Medal from the time of the Covent Garden (London) theater re-opening, and the riots caused by rising prices (the Old Price Riots, 1809).
• Two identical tokens issued by John Ashby, stock broker in Bartholomew Lane bank. London [ca. 1820]. On one side appears a bull with the head of the banker Nathan Meir Rothschild and the legend "John Ashby Stock Broker no. 3, Bartholomew Lane Bank". On the reverse appear the office hours and an animal with the head of the banker Moses Macatta.
• Two different medals commemorating George III, King of the United Kingdom. [1820]. On both appears the Holy Edward's crown with the tetragrammaton above it, surrounded by sun beams.
• Token issued by the E. Moses & Son store in London. On the reverse appears a calendar of Sundays for the year 1856.
Size and condition vary
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
• Medal from the time of the Covent Garden (London) theater re-opening, and the riots caused by rising prices (the Old Price Riots, 1809).
• Two identical tokens issued by John Ashby, stock broker in Bartholomew Lane bank. London [ca. 1820]. On one side appears a bull with the head of the banker Nathan Meir Rothschild and the legend "John Ashby Stock Broker no. 3, Bartholomew Lane Bank". On the reverse appear the office hours and an animal with the head of the banker Moses Macatta.
• Two different medals commemorating George III, King of the United Kingdom. [1820]. On both appears the Holy Edward's crown with the tetragrammaton above it, surrounded by sun beams.
• Token issued by the E. Moses & Son store in London. On the reverse appears a calendar of Sundays for the year 1856.
Size and condition vary
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Unsold
Pendant for the first Tower of David Exhibition, 1921.
The Tower of David Exhibitions which took place in the Tower of David in Jerusalem during 1921-1932, were the main activity center of the Hebrew Artists Association [later the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association]. They are considered an important milestone in the history and development of Israeli art.
Obverse: relief of the Tower of David next to the Hebrew legend "Jerusalem Tower of David", surrounded by the legend "First Art Exhibition" in English, Hebrew and Arabic, and "1921". Reverse: blank.
Diameter: 26 mm. Suspension loop.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
The Tower of David Exhibitions which took place in the Tower of David in Jerusalem during 1921-1932, were the main activity center of the Hebrew Artists Association [later the Israel Painters and Sculptors Association]. They are considered an important milestone in the history and development of Israeli art.
Obverse: relief of the Tower of David next to the Hebrew legend "Jerusalem Tower of David", surrounded by the legend "First Art Exhibition" in English, Hebrew and Arabic, and "1921". Reverse: blank.
Diameter: 26 mm. Suspension loop.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $300
Unsold
Two pendants (slightly different) issued by "Arab Women's Association in Jerusalem" (possibly the "Arab Women's Association" founded in 1929). Jerusalem, 1938.
1. Obverse: two medallions with the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Above them appears the year 1938 and beneath them the legend "50 Mil charity for orphans" (Arabic). Reverse: the legend "Arab Women's Association in Jerusalem" (Arabic).
Diameter: 27 mm. Suspension loop.
2. Obverse: Two medallions with the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Above them appears the year 1938 and beneath them appears the legend "Save the Orphans" (Arabic). Reverse: The legend "Arab Women's Association in Jerusalem" (Arabic).
Diameter: 28 mm. Slight defects. Suspension loop (not pierced).
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
1. Obverse: two medallions with the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Above them appears the year 1938 and beneath them the legend "50 Mil charity for orphans" (Arabic). Reverse: the legend "Arab Women's Association in Jerusalem" (Arabic).
Diameter: 27 mm. Suspension loop.
2. Obverse: Two medallions with the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Above them appears the year 1938 and beneath them appears the legend "Save the Orphans" (Arabic). Reverse: The legend "Arab Women's Association in Jerusalem" (Arabic).
Diameter: 28 mm. Slight defects. Suspension loop (not pierced).
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $450
Unsold
A medal struck in honor of the series of articles "A Nazi Travels to Palestine", published in the Nazi journal "Der Angriff" (The Attack). A memento of the cooperation between the Nazi Party and the German Zionist Federation, in their mutual goal of tranfering German Jews to Palestine (the "Ha'avara"). Germany, 1934. German.
Obverse: a Star of David in the center is surrounded by the German legend "A Nazi Travels to Palestine" (Ein Nazi fährt nach Palästina). Reverse: a swastika and the words "And he tells about it in The Attack" (Und erzählt davon in Angriff).
In the early days of Nazi rule in Germany, the Zionist Movement was inclined to cooperate with the line that the Nazi government adopted at the time – encouraging immigration of German Jews to Palestine. In the spring of 1933, the leaders of the German Zionist Association decided to contact elements within the Nazi party who might support the Zionist cause. Kurt Tuchler, a German-Jewish jurist and judge, and a member of the managing committee of the German Zionist Federation, contacted Leopold von Mildenstein, a senior Nazi officer who was head of the Jewish department of the SD (the security service of the SS and the Nazi party), and asked him to publish an article in the Nazi press about the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine. In 1933, the two men traveled to Palestine with their wives and spent a month touring the country, to enable von Mildenstein to get an impression of the achievements of the thriving Zionist enterprise. In a report submitted to Yad Vashem years later, Tuchler wrote, "The purpose of the visit was to create, in an important Nazi newspaper, an image that would promote the Zionist cause in Palestine". After their return to Germany, von Mildenstein published a series of 12 illustrated articles in the Nazi newspaper "Der Angriff" (The Attack), which was the mouthpiece of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. The articles were published under the headline "A Nazi Travels to Palestine". To commemorate the article series, Goebbels commissioned this medal.
Diameter: 35 mm. Good condition. Stains.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Obverse: a Star of David in the center is surrounded by the German legend "A Nazi Travels to Palestine" (Ein Nazi fährt nach Palästina). Reverse: a swastika and the words "And he tells about it in The Attack" (Und erzählt davon in Angriff).
In the early days of Nazi rule in Germany, the Zionist Movement was inclined to cooperate with the line that the Nazi government adopted at the time – encouraging immigration of German Jews to Palestine. In the spring of 1933, the leaders of the German Zionist Association decided to contact elements within the Nazi party who might support the Zionist cause. Kurt Tuchler, a German-Jewish jurist and judge, and a member of the managing committee of the German Zionist Federation, contacted Leopold von Mildenstein, a senior Nazi officer who was head of the Jewish department of the SD (the security service of the SS and the Nazi party), and asked him to publish an article in the Nazi press about the Jewish Yishuv in Palestine. In 1933, the two men traveled to Palestine with their wives and spent a month touring the country, to enable von Mildenstein to get an impression of the achievements of the thriving Zionist enterprise. In a report submitted to Yad Vashem years later, Tuchler wrote, "The purpose of the visit was to create, in an important Nazi newspaper, an image that would promote the Zionist cause in Palestine". After their return to Germany, von Mildenstein published a series of 12 illustrated articles in the Nazi newspaper "Der Angriff" (The Attack), which was the mouthpiece of Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister. The articles were published under the headline "A Nazi Travels to Palestine". To commemorate the article series, Goebbels commissioned this medal.
Diameter: 35 mm. Good condition. Stains.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $1,200
Sold for: $4,750
Including buyer's premium
Approximately 540 medals, coins, plaques, medallions and pendants, mostly Israeli or with Jewish motifs. Israel, United States, Germany, Britain and elsewhere. 20th century (a few items from the late 19th century).
In the collection are about 100 Lira and Shekel coins in various denominations and special editions minted for events in the history of the Jewish people or different themes in its culture; medals struck by Israel's Coins and Medals Corp.; medals issued by the American Israeli Numismatic Association Inc., and other medals related to United States Jewry; medals commemorating dignitaries, among them Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann and Golda Meir; Medals for different Independence Days; Medals commemorating IDF military accomplishments; medals issued by government, public and commercial entities commemorating events and special dates; medals and souvenir plaques from Israel; and more.
The collection also includes eleven gold medals (total weight: about 45 grams) minted by Israel's Coins and Medals Corp.: "Decade of Israel's Liberation", 1958 (from the first edition, with the year תל"א on the reverse); "Shema Israel", 1980; "Hundred Years of Settlement", 1982; "Resistance Struggle against the Nazis", 1983; "Exodus, the ship that won", 1987; "Wedding Anniversary", 1990 (medal set with a ruby stone); and more medals.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
In the collection are about 100 Lira and Shekel coins in various denominations and special editions minted for events in the history of the Jewish people or different themes in its culture; medals struck by Israel's Coins and Medals Corp.; medals issued by the American Israeli Numismatic Association Inc., and other medals related to United States Jewry; medals commemorating dignitaries, among them Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann and Golda Meir; Medals for different Independence Days; Medals commemorating IDF military accomplishments; medals issued by government, public and commercial entities commemorating events and special dates; medals and souvenir plaques from Israel; and more.
The collection also includes eleven gold medals (total weight: about 45 grams) minted by Israel's Coins and Medals Corp.: "Decade of Israel's Liberation", 1958 (from the first edition, with the year תל"א on the reverse); "Shema Israel", 1980; "Hundred Years of Settlement", 1982; "Resistance Struggle against the Nazis", 1983; "Exodus, the ship that won", 1987; "Wedding Anniversary", 1990 (medal set with a ruby stone); and more medals.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,375
Including buyer's premium
Large and high-quality collection of approximately 320 souvenir medals, medallions, and badges for sports events and various competitions. Palestine, 1930s-1980s (approximately 20 items from the 1930s and 1940s; most items are from the 1960s and onwards).
The collection includes, among other things, badges, souvenir medals and medallions from dozens of marches all over the country, including various marches held by the HaPoel and Maccabi movements, as well as popular and regional marches. The collection also includes badges and medals from swims organized by Hapoel; badges, medals and medallions struck for various sports competitions; a number of badges and medals awarded to the participants of the first "Maccabiah" (1932) and the second "Maccabiah" (1935) and a number of badges from the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth "Maccabiah" games; badges of sports organizations; badges and medallions of various car-racing clubs in Palestine, mostly from the 1930s-40s; and other badges, plaques, medals and medallions struck for sports events, national sports days, and more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
The collection includes, among other things, badges, souvenir medals and medallions from dozens of marches all over the country, including various marches held by the HaPoel and Maccabi movements, as well as popular and regional marches. The collection also includes badges and medals from swims organized by Hapoel; badges, medals and medallions struck for various sports competitions; a number of badges and medals awarded to the participants of the first "Maccabiah" (1932) and the second "Maccabiah" (1935) and a number of badges from the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth "Maccabiah" games; badges of sports organizations; badges and medallions of various car-racing clubs in Palestine, mostly from the 1930s-40s; and other badges, plaques, medals and medallions struck for sports events, national sports days, and more.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $500
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Eleven pins and a cloth badge of the Jewish Brigade.
1-11. Eleven pins, among them pins with the emblem of the Jewish Brigade inlaid with blue, white and red enamel (pins of the first, second and third regiments).
12. Cloth badge with the inscription "Jewish Brigade Group".
Enclosed: a pin with the emblem of the Royal Artillery Regiment, on the background of blue and white enamel strips (in a similar design to the Jewish Brigade pins).
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
1-11. Eleven pins, among them pins with the emblem of the Jewish Brigade inlaid with blue, white and red enamel (pins of the first, second and third regiments).
12. Cloth badge with the inscription "Jewish Brigade Group".
Enclosed: a pin with the emblem of the Royal Artillery Regiment, on the background of blue and white enamel strips (in a similar design to the Jewish Brigade pins).
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue
Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
January 22, 2019
Opening: $300
Unsold
Five cap badges and pins of the police forces which operated in Palestine during the British Mandate.
• Cap badge of the "Notrim", with the inscription "Supernumerary / Palestine Police".
• Cap badge with the inscription "T.A.S.C." [Temporary Additional Security Constables] and "guarding and security" (Hebrew) – probably of the "Notrim" force.
• Lapel pin with the inscriptions "T.A.S.C. [Temporary Additional Security Constables] and "guarding and security" (Hebrew); most probably of the "Notrim".
• Cap badge of the Palestine Police.
• Pin of the Tel-Aviv police, with the letters "מ.ע.ת.א" [Tel-Aviv Police] and T.A.M.P.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
• Cap badge of the "Notrim", with the inscription "Supernumerary / Palestine Police".
• Cap badge with the inscription "T.A.S.C." [Temporary Additional Security Constables] and "guarding and security" (Hebrew) – probably of the "Notrim" force.
• Lapel pin with the inscriptions "T.A.S.C. [Temporary Additional Security Constables] and "guarding and security" (Hebrew); most probably of the "Notrim".
• Cap badge of the Palestine Police.
• Pin of the Tel-Aviv police, with the letters "מ.ע.ת.א" [Tel-Aviv Police] and T.A.M.P.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
Category
The Morton Leventhal Collection
Catalogue