Stationery box made of olive wood, with an image of the Dome of the Rock. [Jerusalem, late 19th century or early 20th century].
Carved olive wood.
An oblong box, divided into compartments for storing stationery. The lid of the box is decorated with a relief - the Dome of the Rock, flowers and leaves. Above the relief, the inscription "Jerusalem" was printed.
Enclosed: an ink blotter, a horse hair brush, a wooden nib pen and a wooden letter opener.
6X10.5X28 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes. The key of the box is missing and the lock is slightly damaged.

Model of Jerusalem As It Now Is, […] executed and published […] by Edwin Smith. Sheffield, England, 1848.
A large topographic plaster model of Jerusalem and the mountains surrounding it. The model is painted by hand and placed in a wooden case.
At first, Edwin Smith made such models as an educational tool; however, before long, he realized that there was a demand for them outside the school as an object of religious, scientific and aesthetic value and he started making them for sale. Smith also exhibited a topographic model of Jerusalem at an exhibition in London. Among his clients were the widowed Queen Adelaide, the Anglican Church in Jerusalem and Lady Judith Montefiore.
Mounted on the corner of the model is a label with the details of the manufacturer, the scale and instructions, guiding the viewers to lower their eyes to the height of the model, "in order that the City and Environs may present the same foreshortened and natural appearances as beheld by a traveler on the spot".
33X28cm. Fair condition. A fracture all along the model, with loss of several pieces of plaster. Other losses of plaster. In a 35.5X31 cm wooden case. The sides of the case are partly detached from their base. Fractures to the lid of the case. Blemishes.

Eight postcards – Palestine pavilions at exhibitions in London and Paris:
1-4. Four postcards - Souvenir of The Palestine Exhibition. London, Samuel Bagster & Sons, John F. Shaw & Co.
The postcards depict photographs from Jerusalem and Egypt. Possibly, the postcards were printed for an exhibition that was held in London on 1912.
5. A postcard with an illustration of the Palestine pavilion at The British Empire Exhibition in Wembley, London, [1925.1925].
6-7. Two postcards, slightly different one from the other, with a photograph of the Palestine pavilion at the Exposition Coloniale International, Paris, 1931.
8. A souvenir postcard from the Palestine pavilion at the Exposition Internationale in Paris. Paris: Lipschutz, 1937. Photomontage of pioneers immigrating to Palestine.
Good condition. A few stains.

41 postcards depicting views of Palestine. Jerusalem: Jamal Brothers, 1921.
29 of the postcards mention the photographer – "Published by S. Narinsky" (Hebrew) and 12 postcards (presumably from the same series) are without the photographer's name. Postcards include: "A Yemenite Jew chief in Jerusalem Examining his great-grandson", "A modern colony in Jaffa", "The mountains of Gilead behind the River Jordan", "A side view of Tiberias", "Between the orange gardens", "Threshing in Palestine", "The flourishing colony of Khideira near Haifa" and more.
Most of the postcards are captioned on verso in English, Hebrew and Arabic. A few are captioned only in English and Arabic. Many of the postcards appear in two copies – one in sepia and the other in blue monochrome.
Shlomo Narinsky (1885-1960), born in Russia, studied photography in Berlin. In 1905 he immigrated to Palestine and settled in Jerusalem. He worked as a photographer and opened a studio in Jerusalem. This pictorial series of postcards was published by Jamal Brothers when Narinsky was in exile in Egypt, to where he was deported during World War I due to his foreign nationality.
9X13.5 cm. Good condition. A few stains. A tear to one postcard.