Lot 54
Chiseled Stone Plate Set in Wood – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1947/1948
Chiseled stone plate made by a detainee in the Cyprus detention camps, 5708 (1947/1948).
The plate is divided diagonally by a barbed wire carved in the stone. Seen on the right field are barbed wire wound around a pole and a tin shack of the type in which the detainees lived in the "winter camps" in Cyprus; seen on the left field is a ship sailing eastward towards the rising sun. Inscribed on top "Cyprus – 5708" (Hebrew). Set in a wooden plate.
Stone plate: 11X8 cm. Wooden plate: 18X12.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to stone and wooden plate.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
