Lot 796
Collection of Pins – Ports in Israel
Ten pins of different ports in Palestine, some from the Mandate Period.
• A Tel-Aviv port pin, with the image of Zebulun, and the legend "Zebulun shall live by the seashore, Tel-Aviv Port". • A Tel-Aviv port pin, with the emblem of the city and the legend" "when you cross the shore I am with you" (Hebrew). • Pin – Jaffa port; a lighthouse and an anchor. • Four Haifa port pins, including a pin commemorating 25 years to the establishment of the port. • Pins of Eilat and Ashdod ports. • "Mishmar HaNamal" pin. • "Ports Authority" pin - with an anchor, sea waves and two cranes. A legend: "thou shall spread to the west" (Hebrew).
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
