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Lot 354

Collection of Scrips – Including Coupons from the Siege of Jerusalem: for Water Cans, Oil Cans, Fuel and More

Eleven scrips. Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Tiberias and Afulah, [ca. mid-20th century]. Including: two (different) oil coupons issued by the committee of the Me'ah Shea'rim neighborhood, 1948; a coupon issued by the water-provision department of Jerusalem ("For forty cans"); three coupons issued by the "Emergency Committee" (Va'adat Hamatzav) of Afulah – "Fuel insurance tax"; coupon for an oil can at the petrol station of Yosef Faraj Mizrachi in Tiberias; coupon for staying overnight at the Eshel Avraham Beit Hachnasat Orchim (motel) in Me'ah She'arim; and more. Size and condition vary. Enclosed are two receipts for a donation: receipt for a donation of 10 mils to the Yishuv Fund; receipt for a donation to the Tehillim society of Sfax (Tunisia).