Auction 6 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

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Embroidery for Purim

Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
Including buyer's premium
Embroidery on netted material for Purim, colorful threads, glued to cardboard.
Inscription in Hebrew, "When the month of Adar begins, happiness increases", and "The constellation of Adar is Pisces". Decorated with plants and columns, a set table, and fish.
There was a custom in Hungary as well as in other communities to hang such embroidery on the synagogue's wall from the beginning of the month of Adar.
46.5x33.5 cm, including frame, which is not embroidered. Fair condition. Glue marks and stains. The cardboard is broken, stained and torn.
Pesach and Purim
Pesach and Purim