20 share certificates and bonds, issued by various banks, associations and societies. Palestine, first half of the 20th century.
In the collection: * Bond of "Banque Commerciale de Palestine" (Commercial Bank of Palestine). Monsohn press, [ca. second decade of the 20th century], Jerusalem. * Bonds and share certificates of "HaMizrachi Bank" (designed by Hermann Struck), "Palestine Kupat-Am Bank", "The Eretz-Israel Jewish Agricultural Trust Ltd", and "Bank Zerubabel", 1920s and 1930s. * Government of Palestine, two War loan bonds, ten pounds, 1945 * Certificate of deposit of "Halvaah Vehisachon Jerusalem Mutual Benefit Society LTD". Design: Meir Gur-Arieh and Ze'ev Raban. Jerusalem: Graphica press, 1932. * Stock of "Torah & Derech Eretz Society Ltd. Jerusalem", 1935. * Share certificates, bonds and other financial documents of commercial and public companies, including "Ezra UVitzaron Housing Society LTD", "'Bossem' Company LTD" (designed by Meir Gur-Arieh and Ze'ev Raban), "Gordon Distilleries LTD", and more. 1920s-1940s. * Receipt, "Jewish Bukowiner Relief of the Holy Land", Jerusalem. And more.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. small tears and open tears, cuts affecting the text, stains, filing holes and creases. The receipt is in fair-bad condition.

מדליות, סיכות וסמלים

Two medals with the tetragrammaton. 17th century.
1. Medal commemorating 100 years since the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. [Saxony], 1617.
Obverse: Frederick III, Elector of Saxony, and Martin Luther, across from each other at a table with an open book. Above them is the tetragrammaton inside a rising sun and a Latin legend. Reverse: A furnace and a snake wound around a staff and the inscription "Egyptus et Israel" [Egypt and Israel], and another legend.
Diameter: 41 mm. Fair condition. Defective minting.
2. Silver medal, presumably minted for the new year. [Saxony?], 1626.
Obverse: The Earth, from which two hands emerge, one holding a sword and the other a spade. Above it is a book from which a third hand emerges, stretching upwards. Surrounding the image is the Latin legend "Perando Orando Laborando Consistit". Reverse: The tetragrammaton inside a rising sun and a German legend.
Diameter: 40 mm.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.

Three medals with the Tetragrammaton. Switzerland, the 18th and 19th centuries.
1-2. Two silver prize-medals, awarded by educational institutions in Geneva. [The 18th century]. Engraving on the circumference of one of the medals, from 1739.
3. Bronze medal with the Tetragrammaton, marking the 300th anniversary of the Geneva Academy. 1859. Design: Auguste Bovet.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Morton Leventhal Collection, New-York.

1. Medal awarded to Boris Kazmann, representative of American Zionists in a Zionist convention held in Baltimore (USA) in 1917.?Medal shaped as a shield. "Zion" within a Star of David appears in the center, surrounded by the legend: "Zionist Convention Baltimore 1917 5677". Suspension loop and a blue and white ribbon inscribed "Delegate Federation of American Zionists, 20th Convention" (faded). A pin is attached to the ribbon with its receiver's name – Boris Kazmann (chemist, one of the organizers and participants in the first Zionist Congress, American Zionists Organization activist and head of the Zionist Society of Engineers and Agriculturalists).
Medal (without ribbon): 35x35 mm.?2. Medal in honor of a Zionist Convention in the USA, 1921.?In the center – "Zion" within a Star of David surrounded by the legend: "Zionist Convention 1921 5681". Suspension loop and ribbon in the colors of the American flag.
Diameter: 30 mm.

Varied collection of 24 medals, plaques and pendants, which were issued in memory of various figures and events. Europe and Palestine, the 18th-20th centuries.
1. Medal minted to commemorate the "Edict of Tolerance" issued by Emperor Franz Joseph II, which granted rights to the Jews in Austria. With the Emperor's portrait and the legend: "Tolerantia Imperantis" (Latin: Tolerance Rules). Austria, 1782. Signed – Reich (Johann Christian Reich).
2. A medal minted to commemorate Admiral Sydney Smith's success in fighting off Napoleon's army in Acre during the battle of 1799. [England, ca. 1820]. With Smith's portrait and signatures of the artists: James Mudie, George Mills and Nicolas Guy Antoine Brenet.
3-5. Three medals with portraits of European dignitaries, 18th and 19th centuries:?* Medal with the Tetragrammaton and the portrait of the British mathematician and philosopher Samuel Clarke. * Medal with the portrait of a Belgian attorney, judge and Congress Member. * Medal with the portrait of Prof. Johann Nepomuk von Nussbaum.
6-10. Five medals with Jewish themes. [Europe, 18th – 20th centuries]: * Two silver medals with the portrait of Moses and a relief of the Tablets of the Law. One of them with the Tetragrammaton, the other is signed: Loos (Gottfried Bernhard Loos). * Medal with a relief of the Ten Commandments, signed L.F. * Medal with a portrait of King Solomon. * Silver medal with a relief of a star-of-David and the emblem of the United Kingdom (England, early 20th century).
11-12. Two bronze plaques with a relief of the two spies carrying a cluster of grapes on a pole, after a sketch by Ze'ev Raban. [Israel, the second half of the 20th century].
12-24. 12 plaques, medals and other items commemorating Theodor Herzl (Israel; one item from the USA, ca. 1940s-1960s): * Two plaques with Herzl's portrait, one of them made by "Pal-Bell". * Medals and plaques designed by Shmuel Krechmer. * Medal - one hundred years since Herzl's birth, with the symbols of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. * Two medals - liberation of Jerusalem, with a relief of a soldier standing by the Western Wall and the legend: "Liberation of Jerusalem 7.9.1967". * Pin with Herzl's portrait issued by the Zionist Organization of America. * And more.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
Provenance: The Morton Leventhal Collection, New-York.