Auction 91 Part 1 Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Collection of Photographic "Shanah Tovah" Greeting Cards – The Cyprus Detention Camps
Opening: $200
Sold for: $350
Including buyer's premium
Seven photographic "shanah tovah" greeting cards sent by detainees of the detention camps in Cyprus. Cyprus, the eve of Rosh Hashanah, 1947-1948.
• Four cards bearing their sender's portrait, surrounded by sights of the camps, tents, watchtowers, the bridge between camp 65 and camp 66 and ships sailing to Palestine. • Two "shanah tovah" greeting cards bearing photographs of the "summer camps" where the detainees lived in tents. One of them is folded and signed in the plate "Foto Pais". With handwritten new year's greeting by the members of the joint camp secretariat. • "shanah tovah" greeting card by the "Zionist Youth" Movement in Cyprus, bearing the slogan "To Fulfillment" (Hebrew). Handwritten greeting on verso, signed "To Fulfillment in Cyprus" (Hebrew).
5.5X8 to 7.5X9 cm. (one card is folded in half). Good overall condition. Minor blemishes. Creases. Stains.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
• Four cards bearing their sender's portrait, surrounded by sights of the camps, tents, watchtowers, the bridge between camp 65 and camp 66 and ships sailing to Palestine. • Two "shanah tovah" greeting cards bearing photographs of the "summer camps" where the detainees lived in tents. One of them is folded and signed in the plate "Foto Pais". With handwritten new year's greeting by the members of the joint camp secretariat. • "shanah tovah" greeting card by the "Zionist Youth" Movement in Cyprus, bearing the slogan "To Fulfillment" (Hebrew). Handwritten greeting on verso, signed "To Fulfillment in Cyprus" (Hebrew).
5.5X8 to 7.5X9 cm. (one card is folded in half). Good overall condition. Minor blemishes. Creases. Stains.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Souvenirs of Palestine, Postcards, "Shanah Tovah" Cards
Souvenirs of Palestine, Postcards, "Shanah Tovah" Cards