23 food coupons issued in Palestine, mostly by charity institutions or cooperative societies. Jerusalem and elsewhere, [first half of the 20th century]. Including: • Flour coupon for orphans in Safed "by the Vienna Hilfskommission [aid commission], 1915". • Coupon for "Half a Ratl of Matzah", issued by the Va'ad HaPekidim Ve-Ha'Amarcalim of Amsterdam (Jerusalem, 1915). • Coupon for one ratl of potatoes, from the donation of Ze'ev ben Sheindel Blumberg of Odessa (Jerusalem, 1916). • Two wheat coupons "generosity of the great minister of the fleet and commander of the fourth army Djemal Pasha" (Jerusalem, 1917). • Coupons issued by the "HaMa'avir" company, the "LaSovah" cooperative restaurant, the Kefar Malal dairy, "Va'ad HaKlali Knesset Yisrael" and more. Some filled-in by hand and stamped. Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Stains, creases and small tears to edges of some coupons. Enclosed: scrip for use at the Blue House Diner, face value 10 Agorot (1960s?).

Ten paper scrips – Jerusalem and Hebron during the British mandate. 1-7. Seven scrips for use at the "A. Nigrin quality grocery store, the Jews Steet in the Old City". Face values of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 mils. 8-10. Three scrips, face values of 1, 5, and 10 Egyptian Kuruş. Issued in the 1920s by Noah Amerman, a baker in Hebron (inked stamp of the business on verso of one scrip). Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Noah Amerman (also spelled Imerman) a baker and scholar, born in Slutsk, one of the victims of the 1929 Palestine Riots. Studied at the Szczucin Yeshiva and with the outbreak of World War I was drafted into the Russian army, in which he served for three years. After the war, apprenticed as a baker under his father and divided his time between Torah study and work. He immigrated to Palestine in 1925 and opened his own bakery in Hebron – the Amerman Bakery, which became one of the most successful in the town. Was brutally murdered on Av 18th, 1919.

Eleven scrips. Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Tiberias and Afulah, [ca. mid-20th century]. Including: two (different) oil coupons issued by the committee of the Me'ah Shea'rim neighborhood, 1948; a coupon issued by the water-provision department of Jerusalem ("For forty cans"); three coupons issued by the "Emergency Committee" (Va'adat Hamatzav) of Afulah – "Fuel insurance tax"; coupon for an oil can at the petrol station of Yosef Faraj Mizrachi in Tiberias; coupon for staying overnight at the Eshel Avraham Beit Hachnasat Orchim (motel) in Me'ah She'arim; and more. Size and condition vary. Enclosed are two receipts for a donation: receipt for a donation of 10 mils to the Yishuv Fund; receipt for a donation to the Tehillim society of Sfax (Tunisia).