Auction 73 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art
Chiseled Stone Plate Set in Wood – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1947/1948
Opening: $400
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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.
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.
The British Mandate of Palestine, Jewish Enlistment, Illegal Immigration,
Cyprus Detention Camps and the Establishment of the State of Israel
The British Mandate of Palestine, Jewish Enlistment, Illegal Immigration,
Cyprus Detention Camps and the Establishment of the State of Israel