Online Auction 021 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Three Medals and a Pin - Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod

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Three medals and a pin - Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod.
1. JNF medal. Signed: "Roukhomovsky, Paris".
Obverse: a menorah surmounted by a Star of David. Beneath it is the Hebrew legend "Jewish National Fund", grain stalks and grape clusters. Reverse: a boy dropping a coin into a JNF box, with a map of Palestine in the background, marked with places of Jewish settlements. On the right edge is the Hebrew legend: "You shall grant a redemption of the land". Diameter: 28 mm.
2. JNF medal.
Obverse: woman carrying a basket on her head and the legend (in Hebrew) "Jewish National Fund". Reverse: youth seated beneath a tree and playing a flute. Diameter: 25 mm. Suspension loop.
3. Medal with calendar for 1937. Issued by the Keren Hayesod lodge in Vienna. [Austria, 1936-1937].
Obverse: figure of a laborer lifting steel beams, tables of months and names of Jewish holidays, in Hebrew: "Shavuot", "Pesach", "Yom Kippur" and "Rosh Hashana". Reverse: tables of months, the Hebrew legend "Keren Hayesod 5697-5698" and decorations showing a menorah, wheat, olive, grapevine and pomegranate. Diameter: 40 mm.
4. JNF pin, designed by Meir Gur-Arie. [1929]
At the bottom is the legend "JNF" (in Hebrew) and above it a rising sun (inside the sun is the year "5689" in Hebrew letters). On the left - a farmer sowing, on the right is the Hebrew legend "In memory of the visit to Palestine". Diameter: 23 mm. Clasp missing.
Provenance: The Bruno Kirschner collection.
Medals, Tags and Pins, Philately, Banknotes and Share Cerificates
Medals, Tags and Pins, Philately, Banknotes and Share Cerificates