Auction 68 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Wood and Stone Box – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1948
Opening: $800
Unsold
A wooden box with chiseled stone inlay, from the detention camps in Cyprus. Cyprus, 1948.
An octagonal wooden box; inlaid with stone plaques decorated with a pattern of barbed wire. The hinged lid of the box is inlaid with an octagonal plaque with a relief of a sailboat and the Hebrew inscriptions "Cyprus" and "5708" [1948].
Diameter: 16 cm. Height: 6 cm. Fractures, chipping and minor blemishes to the stone plaques and the wooden box. One of the plaques is broken and half of it is missing. Part of the inner lining of the box is missing. The box is affixed to a wooden base.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
An octagonal wooden box; inlaid with stone plaques decorated with a pattern of barbed wire. The hinged lid of the box is inlaid with an octagonal plaque with a relief of a sailboat and the Hebrew inscriptions "Cyprus" and "5708" [1948].
Diameter: 16 cm. Height: 6 cm. Fractures, chipping and minor blemishes to the stone plaques and the wooden box. One of the plaques is broken and half of it is missing. Part of the inner lining of the box is missing. The box is affixed to a wooden base.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe
Underground Movements, Illegal Immigration and Detention Camps, The 1948 War and the Establishment of the State of Israe