Auction 52 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
"Get your Shekel" - Poster Designed by Otte Wallisch, 1945 - "Zionist Shekel"
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,188
Including buyer's premium
"Increase the Organized People's Power!", illustrated poster of the World Zionist Organization. Design: Otte Wallisch. Signed in print: MW [Atelier Machner-Wallisch]. [Tel Aviv, 1945]. Hebrew.
Poster calling on citizens to join the "World Zionist Organization". Illustration of a hand holding a tag reading "Zionist Shekel", and beneath it the inscription (in Hebrew) - "Shiklu et HaShekel" (Get Your Shekel). An identical poster in English was printed the same year (see next item).
31.5X47.5 cm. Good condition. Horizontal folding marks and some creases. Light stains to reverse.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
Poster calling on citizens to join the "World Zionist Organization". Illustration of a hand holding a tag reading "Zionist Shekel", and beneath it the inscription (in Hebrew) - "Shiklu et HaShekel" (Get Your Shekel). An identical poster in English was printed the same year (see next item).
31.5X47.5 cm. Good condition. Horizontal folding marks and some creases. Light stains to reverse.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
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