Auction 27 - Books, Manuscripts and Rabbinical Letters

Two Letters from Safed and Jerusalem – to Sir David Ezra in Calcutta

Opening: $300
Sold for: $625
Including buyer's premium
* An emissary letter from the “Chesed V'Emet” Society in Safed to Sir David Ezra in Calcutta, sent by Rabbi Elazar David Margalit and Rabbi Matil Twister. Seven signatures and stamps by important members of the Safed community. Scribal handwriting on a leaf with decorated printing. Safed, 1894.
29 cm. Fair condition, stains, damage and glued tears.
* Printed New Year letter with drawing of the Western Wall. Completed in Oriental handwriting of letter to Sir David Ezra, signatures and stamps, by Rabbi Shlomo ben Chaim Ochyon and Rabbi Shimon ben Shlomo Yechezkel. Jerusalem, [c. 1895].
22.5 cm. Good condition, includes envelope with writing.
Letters
Letters