Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Collection of Pins and Medals – IDF and Israel’s Wars – The Six Day War
Opening: $200
Sold for: $250
Including buyer's premium
Collection of lapel pins, medals and keychains marking various occasions and events, most of them connected to the Six Day War.
In the collection: • Many medals containing portraits of Yitzhak Rabin and Moshe Dayan. • Medals marking Israeli Independence Day from 1967 to 1971. • Lapel pins with portraits of IDF commanders from the Six Day War. • Medal of the 492nd Communication Battalion. On the reverse of the medal: "Peace for the Galilee 82" and a map of Lebanon. • Medal commemorating the Yom Kippur War. • Medal from Kibbut Yad Mordechai. A monument on the kibbutz is depicted on the obverse; the reverse depicts an Egyptian tank that was repulsed .• Key holder with the symbol of Egypt. On the reverse: "Rabin Met Nasser, 5.6.67." • And more.
Approx. 65 items in all. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
In the collection: • Many medals containing portraits of Yitzhak Rabin and Moshe Dayan. • Medals marking Israeli Independence Day from 1967 to 1971. • Lapel pins with portraits of IDF commanders from the Six Day War. • Medal of the 492nd Communication Battalion. On the reverse of the medal: "Peace for the Galilee 82" and a map of Lebanon. • Medal commemorating the Yom Kippur War. • Medal from Kibbut Yad Mordechai. A monument on the kibbutz is depicted on the obverse; the reverse depicts an Egyptian tank that was repulsed .• Key holder with the symbol of Egypt. On the reverse: "Rabin Met Nasser, 5.6.67." • And more.
Approx. 65 items in all. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
The Morton Leventhal Collection
The Morton Leventhal Collection