Auction 91 Part 1 Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Album with Stone Cover / Collection of Photographs – Cyprus Detention Camps

Opening: $500
Unsold
Album with a chiseled stone cover, made by a detainee in the Cyprus detention camps, and a collection of photographs taken in the camps. Cyprus, 1947-[1949].
Stone boards carved with a relief of a sailboat within a medallion and with the inscription "Cyprus 1947"; mounted on a felt base (new).
With 13 corner-mounted photographs taken in the detention camps in Cyprus and two "shanah tovah" greeting cards published by "Palphot", one depicting illegal immigrants getting off a ship at the shore of Palestine, inscribed "We hope that you too will be among the arrivals this year" (Hebrew).
Album: approx. 11X24 cm. Good condition. Scratches and abrasions to stone. Photographs: size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Some photographs captioned and dated by hand on verso (English).
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illegal Immigration, British Detention Camps, the State of Israel
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illegal Immigration, British Detention Camps, the State of Israel