Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
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Amulet pendant.
Obverse: An open eye (eye of the God Horus), a triangle standing on its edge, containing lines of letters which form the word ABRACADABRA. Flanked by two Stars of David atop the Hebrew letter Shin (which appears twice). Reverse: Seven Stars of David, a star and a crescent, and a hand with fingers spread apart for the Priestly Blessing.
Diameter: 30 mm. Two holes for hanging.
See similar pendant in Kedem Catalog 43, Lot 228.
Obverse: An open eye (eye of the God Horus), a triangle standing on its edge, containing lines of letters which form the word ABRACADABRA. Flanked by two Stars of David atop the Hebrew letter Shin (which appears twice). Reverse: Seven Stars of David, a star and a crescent, and a hand with fingers spread apart for the Priestly Blessing.
Diameter: 30 mm. Two holes for hanging.
See similar pendant in Kedem Catalog 43, Lot 228.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $200
Sold for: $325
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Round plaque with a detailed relief depicting Samuel anointing David King of Israel.
The year 1577 appears in the center of the relief by the figure of David.
A handwritten inscription on the back of the plaque: "Benevenuto Cellini, Samuel anointing David King of Israel". Benevenuto Cellini (1500-1571), whose name appears on the plaque, was an Italian goldsmith and sculptor, one of the most famous goldsmiths in Italy during the Renaissance.
Diameter: 105 mm. Slight defects and a repaired break.
The year 1577 appears in the center of the relief by the figure of David.
A handwritten inscription on the back of the plaque: "Benevenuto Cellini, Samuel anointing David King of Israel". Benevenuto Cellini (1500-1571), whose name appears on the plaque, was an Italian goldsmith and sculptor, one of the most famous goldsmiths in Italy during the Renaissance.
Diameter: 105 mm. Slight defects and a repaired break.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $200
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An anti-Semitic medal from the period of the Covent Garden (London) theater re-opening, and the riots caused by rising prices at the new theater. [England], 1809.
Obverse: figure of a man with pointed ears (resembling horns) and a beard (the actor and theater director John Philip Kemble as Shylock in the play "Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare). Below appear the initials V.P. and the rhyming legends "Av’rice and Titled Lust, Alone we Blame. Yet Blush we Must For ‘Tis a Nations Shame" and "This is the Jew, which Shakespeare Drew".
Reverse: "Hat D’ye / Want? / OP OB / &. D P O" [Old Prices, Open Boxes, and Deference to Public Opinion] surrounded by a wreath and an additional inscription "The Dramas Laws, The Dramas Patrons Give, and he Who Lives To Please, Should Please To Live".
In 1809 a new theater opened in Covent Garden, London, replacing the theater that existed there and had burnt to the ground. The costs of rebuilding the theater led the management to raise the prices of seats which resulted in unrest on the part of the theater audience. The protest against the price rise started on the evening of the premiere and developed into riots which lasted for more than two months and interfered with the ongoing activity of the theater (the riots were named "Old Price Riots").
In an attempt to put an end to the protests, the director of the theater John Philip Kemble organized a group of Jews headed by the Jewish boxer Daniel Mendoza. The involvement of Jews in dispersal of the demonstrators lent an anti-Semitic theme to the conflict which is expressed in this medal (the medal which served the protestors against the price rise, portrays Kemble in an anti-Semitic light as a stereotypic Jew). When the attempt to put an end to the riots failed, the theater management was obliged to answer the public request to lower the prices.
Diameter: 44 mm (medal is framed). Pierced on top for suspension.
Obverse: figure of a man with pointed ears (resembling horns) and a beard (the actor and theater director John Philip Kemble as Shylock in the play "Merchant of Venice" by William Shakespeare). Below appear the initials V.P. and the rhyming legends "Av’rice and Titled Lust, Alone we Blame. Yet Blush we Must For ‘Tis a Nations Shame" and "This is the Jew, which Shakespeare Drew".
Reverse: "Hat D’ye / Want? / OP OB / &. D P O" [Old Prices, Open Boxes, and Deference to Public Opinion] surrounded by a wreath and an additional inscription "The Dramas Laws, The Dramas Patrons Give, and he Who Lives To Please, Should Please To Live".
In 1809 a new theater opened in Covent Garden, London, replacing the theater that existed there and had burnt to the ground. The costs of rebuilding the theater led the management to raise the prices of seats which resulted in unrest on the part of the theater audience. The protest against the price rise started on the evening of the premiere and developed into riots which lasted for more than two months and interfered with the ongoing activity of the theater (the riots were named "Old Price Riots").
In an attempt to put an end to the protests, the director of the theater John Philip Kemble organized a group of Jews headed by the Jewish boxer Daniel Mendoza. The involvement of Jews in dispersal of the demonstrators lent an anti-Semitic theme to the conflict which is expressed in this medal (the medal which served the protestors against the price rise, portrays Kemble in an anti-Semitic light as a stereotypic Jew). When the attempt to put an end to the riots failed, the theater management was obliged to answer the public request to lower the prices.
Diameter: 44 mm (medal is framed). Pierced on top for suspension.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $100
Sold for: $300
Including buyer's premium
Medal awarded to Albert (Abraham) Cohen, the charity consultant of James (Jakob) Mayer de Rothschild, 1855.
Obverse: The Tablets of the Law, a menorah and different utensils, surrounded by the Hebrew legend: "Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands" (Hebrew). Reverse: Italian dedication to Albert Cohen, for charity endeavors for the Jews, on behalf of the Italian Jewish congregation (dated 1855).
Diameter: 55 mm.
Obverse: The Tablets of the Law, a menorah and different utensils, surrounded by the Hebrew legend: "Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare his praise in the coastlands" (Hebrew). Reverse: Italian dedication to Albert Cohen, for charity endeavors for the Jews, on behalf of the Italian Jewish congregation (dated 1855).
Diameter: 55 mm.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $250
Unsold
"Shekel" coin in the style of Roman coins, 1892.
Obverse: profile portrait of a man, with a wreath on his head (possibly a Roman Emperor), the denomination "One Shekel" and the year "1892". Reverse: blank.
Diameter: 17 mm.
Obverse: profile portrait of a man, with a wreath on his head (possibly a Roman Emperor), the denomination "One Shekel" and the year "1892". Reverse: blank.
Diameter: 17 mm.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Bronze medal commemorating the Second Zionist Congress. Paris, 1898.
Obverse: the Hebrew legend "Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations… and bring them to their own land" (Ezekiel 37). Reverse: allegorical relief – a family gazing at a woman pointing at the rising sun. Signed: "Beer Paris 1898".
Diameter: 62 mm.
Obverse: the Hebrew legend "Behold, I will take the people of Israel from the nations… and bring them to their own land" (Ezekiel 37). Reverse: allegorical relief – a family gazing at a woman pointing at the rising sun. Signed: "Beer Paris 1898".
Diameter: 62 mm.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
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Medallion commemorating the Second Zionist Congress, 1898.
Obverse: Five portraits - Herzl's portrait surrounded by those of Max Nordau, Bernard Lazar, Max Emanuel Mandelstam and Rabbi Moshe Gaster. The portraits are surrounded by vegetal decorations.
Reverse: a Star of David, in the center of which is the verse "I shall take the sons of Israel and bring them to their land". Surrounding inscription in Yiddish: "Presidium dem 2-tn kongres der tsayonistn in Basel 28-30 August 1898" [Second Zionist congress in Basel].
Diameter: 28 mm. Suspension loop. Obverse is worn.
Obverse: Five portraits - Herzl's portrait surrounded by those of Max Nordau, Bernard Lazar, Max Emanuel Mandelstam and Rabbi Moshe Gaster. The portraits are surrounded by vegetal decorations.
Reverse: a Star of David, in the center of which is the verse "I shall take the sons of Israel and bring them to their land". Surrounding inscription in Yiddish: "Presidium dem 2-tn kongres der tsayonistn in Basel 28-30 August 1898" [Second Zionist congress in Basel].
Diameter: 28 mm. Suspension loop. Obverse is worn.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $100
Sold for: $163
Including buyer's premium
A medal minted to commemorate the San Remo Conference. [Holland, 1920]. Design: Christian (Chris) Johannes van der Hoef.
Obverse: Relief depicting an encounter between two figures, representing different generations of the Jewish people – a figure of a Jew from the Second Temple period, and a figure of a worker holding a hammer. In the background – a field of wheat. On the lower part appear the Jewish years 3830-5680 [year of destruction of the Second Temple and the year 1920, when the San Remo conference was held]. Reverse: the Hebrew word "Zion" in the center of a Star of David, surrounded by the 12 shields of the Tribes of Israel, and the Hebrew legend "If I forget thee O Jerusalem" and "10 Iyar 1920".
The San Remo Conference was an international assembly held by the winning nations in World War I in San Remo, Italy, in April 1920. The conference dealt with the division of the Ottoman Empire territories, giving Britain the mandate for Palestine. The Mandate incorporated the provisions of the Balfour Declaration: “the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine”. This medal was commissioned by the Dutch Zionist Association, to commemorate this resolution of the San Remo Conference. The medalist chosen was the Dutch sculptor Christiaan Johannes van der Hoef.
Diameter: 94 mm.
Obverse: Relief depicting an encounter between two figures, representing different generations of the Jewish people – a figure of a Jew from the Second Temple period, and a figure of a worker holding a hammer. In the background – a field of wheat. On the lower part appear the Jewish years 3830-5680 [year of destruction of the Second Temple and the year 1920, when the San Remo conference was held]. Reverse: the Hebrew word "Zion" in the center of a Star of David, surrounded by the 12 shields of the Tribes of Israel, and the Hebrew legend "If I forget thee O Jerusalem" and "10 Iyar 1920".
The San Remo Conference was an international assembly held by the winning nations in World War I in San Remo, Italy, in April 1920. The conference dealt with the division of the Ottoman Empire territories, giving Britain the mandate for Palestine. The Mandate incorporated the provisions of the Balfour Declaration: “the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine”. This medal was commissioned by the Dutch Zionist Association, to commemorate this resolution of the San Remo Conference. The medalist chosen was the Dutch sculptor Christiaan Johannes van der Hoef.
Diameter: 94 mm.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $100
Sold for: $125
Including buyer's premium
A medal commemorating Baron Maurice de Hirsch, created by Yoel Tenne (Tenenbaum), 1924.
Obverse: Relief of Baron Hirsch's portrait and the legend "Baron Maurice De Hirsch 1831-1896". Signed: "I. Tenenbaum Ashuach 1924". Reverse: A family in a field of wheat. A mother holds a baby who hands his father a sheaf of wheat. Above the image appears the legend: "Jewish Colonization Association". Signed in Hebrew on the left: "Yoel Ashuach".
Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-1896), a Jewish wealthy philanthropist, founder of the Jewish Colonization Association which assisted in settling Jewish East European refugees in America and mainly in Argentina.
Yoel Tenenbaum, sculptor and painter, native of Lodz. Moved to Palestine in 1920 with a group of pioneers (Halutzim). Studied in Bezalel and later in École des Beaux Arts in Paris. In the early 1920s changed his name to “Ashuach” and later on to “Tenne”. During the 1930s he mainly created carved stone works. Among other works, he assisted Avraham Melnikov with carving the rock for creating the Roaring Lion Memorial in Tel-Hai.
Diameter: 75 mm. Enclosed: a cardboard case, torn and worn.
Obverse: Relief of Baron Hirsch's portrait and the legend "Baron Maurice De Hirsch 1831-1896". Signed: "I. Tenenbaum Ashuach 1924". Reverse: A family in a field of wheat. A mother holds a baby who hands his father a sheaf of wheat. Above the image appears the legend: "Jewish Colonization Association". Signed in Hebrew on the left: "Yoel Ashuach".
Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-1896), a Jewish wealthy philanthropist, founder of the Jewish Colonization Association which assisted in settling Jewish East European refugees in America and mainly in Argentina.
Yoel Tenenbaum, sculptor and painter, native of Lodz. Moved to Palestine in 1920 with a group of pioneers (Halutzim). Studied in Bezalel and later in École des Beaux Arts in Paris. In the early 1920s changed his name to “Ashuach” and later on to “Tenne”. During the 1930s he mainly created carved stone works. Among other works, he assisted Avraham Melnikov with carving the rock for creating the Roaring Lion Memorial in Tel-Hai.
Diameter: 75 mm. Enclosed: a cardboard case, torn and worn.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $350
Unsold
Seven tokens, medallions and medals – Jewish institutes in the United States, England and Argentina (mostly from New-York). 1916-1937.
1. Medallion – Argentinian "Ezra" society (Sociedad Israelita de Beneficencia 'Ezrah'), commemorating the building of a Jewish hospital in Buenos Aires, 1916.
2. Silver and enamel medallion on behalf of the Jewish Educational Association, 1926. Awarded as a prize to a Talmud Torah student for "Merit & Attendance at Talmud Torah".
3. Token given for a donation of one dollar to Haim Berlin Yeshivah in New-York, 1928.
4. Token given for a donation of one dollar to Home of the Sons and Daughters of Israel, home for the elderly in New-York, [ca. 1920s].
5. Token – "Good Luck Token" for collecting funds for Jewish orphans, issued on behalf of "Hebrew Kindergarten & Infants Home" in New-York. [USA, ca. 1920s-30s].
6. Medal commemorating 25 years to the establishment of the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged, [USA], 1936.
7. Medal issued on behalf of a Jewish orphanage in England, The Jewish Orphanage Norwood, in honor of the coronation of King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth in 1937.
Size and condition vary.
1. Medallion – Argentinian "Ezra" society (Sociedad Israelita de Beneficencia 'Ezrah'), commemorating the building of a Jewish hospital in Buenos Aires, 1916.
2. Silver and enamel medallion on behalf of the Jewish Educational Association, 1926. Awarded as a prize to a Talmud Torah student for "Merit & Attendance at Talmud Torah".
3. Token given for a donation of one dollar to Haim Berlin Yeshivah in New-York, 1928.
4. Token given for a donation of one dollar to Home of the Sons and Daughters of Israel, home for the elderly in New-York, [ca. 1920s].
5. Token – "Good Luck Token" for collecting funds for Jewish orphans, issued on behalf of "Hebrew Kindergarten & Infants Home" in New-York. [USA, ca. 1920s-30s].
6. Medal commemorating 25 years to the establishment of the Hebrew Sheltering Home for the Aged, [USA], 1936.
7. Medal issued on behalf of a Jewish orphanage in England, The Jewish Orphanage Norwood, in honor of the coronation of King George the Sixth and Queen Elizabeth in 1937.
Size and condition vary.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $200
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Medal - "Mishkon Tephilo" Synagogue in California, 1941.
Obverse: Synagogue building surrounded by the legend "Bay Cities Cong, Mishkon Tephilo and Center – Venice, Calif.". Obverse: "Mishkon Tephilo", a Star of David, and the legend "Help Build Your Sanctuary Where We May Dwell With the Lord". Thirteen Stars of David and the date "June 29,1941" appear on the margins.
Diameter: 34 mm.
Obverse: Synagogue building surrounded by the legend "Bay Cities Cong, Mishkon Tephilo and Center – Venice, Calif.". Obverse: "Mishkon Tephilo", a Star of David, and the legend "Help Build Your Sanctuary Where We May Dwell With the Lord". Thirteen Stars of David and the date "June 29,1941" appear on the margins.
Diameter: 34 mm.
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Online Auction 014 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
June 5, 2018
Opening: $700
Sold for: $1,063
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A set of memorial coins for David Ben Gurion – two silver coins and one gold coin (identical design). Israel Coins and Medals Corporation, Israel, 1974.
1-2. Two silver coins. Obverse: Emblem of the State of Israel, denomination: twenty five Israeli Lira, and the year - 1974. Reverse: Portrait of David Ben Gurion and the words "David Ben Gurion" in Hebrew and in Latin characters. Diameter: 36 mm. Weight: 26 gr.
3. Gold coin. Obverse: Emblem of the State of Israel, denomination: five hundred Israeli Lira, and the year – 1974. Reverse: Portrait of Ben Gurion and the words "David Ben Gurion" in Hebrew and in Latin characters. Diameter: 35 mm. Weight: 28 gr.
The portrait of David Ben Gurion on the coins was designed by Andre Laser (after a photograph by Alfred Bernheim). The letters and the face of the coin were designed by Zvi Narkis.
The three coins are housed in the original leather-like pouch (with the Emblem of Israel embossed on). The case is housed in a cardboard case partly covered with velvet.
1-2. Two silver coins. Obverse: Emblem of the State of Israel, denomination: twenty five Israeli Lira, and the year - 1974. Reverse: Portrait of David Ben Gurion and the words "David Ben Gurion" in Hebrew and in Latin characters. Diameter: 36 mm. Weight: 26 gr.
3. Gold coin. Obverse: Emblem of the State of Israel, denomination: five hundred Israeli Lira, and the year – 1974. Reverse: Portrait of Ben Gurion and the words "David Ben Gurion" in Hebrew and in Latin characters. Diameter: 35 mm. Weight: 28 gr.
The portrait of David Ben Gurion on the coins was designed by Andre Laser (after a photograph by Alfred Bernheim). The letters and the face of the coin were designed by Zvi Narkis.
The three coins are housed in the original leather-like pouch (with the Emblem of Israel embossed on). The case is housed in a cardboard case partly covered with velvet.
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