Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Souvenir from the Levant - Moses Wilhelm Shapira - Jerusalem, 19th Century

Opening: $400
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Souvenirs de Levant [Souvenirs from the Levant] edited by M. W. Shapira [Moses Wilhelm Shapira] and C. F. Spittler Jerusalem, [ca. 1870s].
Souvenir for tourists, made by Moses Wilhelm Shapira, antiquities collector and dealer who lived in Jerusalem in the second half of the 19th century and became known as a forger of antiquities.
A small box in the shape of a medal, within which a booklet is folded as an accordion, with twenty prints (chromolithographs) - figures from the Levant.
Diameter of box: approx. 4.5 cm. Good condition. Slight defects to box.
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography