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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $1,500
Sold for: $5,000
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A collection of about 500 stereoscopic pictures and photographs of views, sites and figures in Palestine (most of them are complete sets) and an elaborate stereoscope device. United States, England, Holland and Palestine, ca. early 20th century.
The collection includes:
· Jerusalem through the Stereoscope, 27 photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, [USA]. Contained in the original case in the shape of two book volumes.
· Palestine through the Stereoscope, 100 photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, [USA]. Contained in the original case, in the shape of two book volumes and accompanied by a book with descriptions of the photographed sites ("Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut).
· The Travel of the Old Testament, 47 (out of 51) photographs published by Underwood & Underwood company, [USA]. Contained in a case in the shape of two book volumes and accompanied by a book with descriptions of the photographed sites (The Travel of the Old Testament, by Rev. Wm. Byron Forbush, 1909).
· Holy Land Series, 100 pictures (numbered 501-600) published by Truman Ward Ingersoll, [USA], 1904.
· Palestine, Tour No. 1 / Palestine, Tour No. 2 - two sets of photographs published by "Sunbeam Tours Ltd", London. Each set includes 36 photographs and a booklet with descriptions of the photographed sited ("Sunbeam Companion") and is housed in the original cardboard case.
· 99 photographs (from a set of one hundred) published by "Realistic Travels", [London].
· 20 photographs published by Keystone View Company.
· 14 photographs published by Underwood & Underwood.
· 16 photographs published by "Wereld-Tourist", Holland.
· Ten stereoscopic photographs titled in the plate in Russian (on the back of two appears an ink-stamp in Russian: "Anton-Michael Carmi, the New Gate, Jerusalem").
· A folding stereoscope device, made of wood, manufactured by "Stereoscopic Company", London (the manufacturer's label areads "Stereoscopic Company Improved Graphoscope, 54 Cheapside, 108 & 110 Regent S.").
Enclosed: Four stereoscope devices made of wood and metal.
Size and condition vary. Several pieces of metal are missing from the stereoscope device.
The collection includes:
· Jerusalem through the Stereoscope, 27 photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, [USA]. Contained in the original case in the shape of two book volumes.
· Palestine through the Stereoscope, 100 photographs published by Underwood & Underwood, [USA]. Contained in the original case, in the shape of two book volumes and accompanied by a book with descriptions of the photographed sites ("Traveling in the Holy Land through the Stereoscope", by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut).
· The Travel of the Old Testament, 47 (out of 51) photographs published by Underwood & Underwood company, [USA]. Contained in a case in the shape of two book volumes and accompanied by a book with descriptions of the photographed sites (The Travel of the Old Testament, by Rev. Wm. Byron Forbush, 1909).
· Holy Land Series, 100 pictures (numbered 501-600) published by Truman Ward Ingersoll, [USA], 1904.
· Palestine, Tour No. 1 / Palestine, Tour No. 2 - two sets of photographs published by "Sunbeam Tours Ltd", London. Each set includes 36 photographs and a booklet with descriptions of the photographed sited ("Sunbeam Companion") and is housed in the original cardboard case.
· 99 photographs (from a set of one hundred) published by "Realistic Travels", [London].
· 20 photographs published by Keystone View Company.
· 14 photographs published by Underwood & Underwood.
· 16 photographs published by "Wereld-Tourist", Holland.
· Ten stereoscopic photographs titled in the plate in Russian (on the back of two appears an ink-stamp in Russian: "Anton-Michael Carmi, the New Gate, Jerusalem").
· A folding stereoscope device, made of wood, manufactured by "Stereoscopic Company", London (the manufacturer's label areads "Stereoscopic Company Improved Graphoscope, 54 Cheapside, 108 & 110 Regent S.").
Enclosed: Four stereoscope devices made of wood and metal.
Size and condition vary. Several pieces of metal are missing from the stereoscope device.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $3,000
Sold for: $6,250
Including buyer's premium
Megilat Starim… [Book of Secrets on the Works of Moses Montefiore, the Good and the Bad], by Ephraim Deinard. New York: Oriom Press, 1928.
A book about Moses Montefiore and his nephew-inheritor Joseph Sebag-Montefiore and Deinard's claims pertaining to them. Printed in fifty copies only, "To be kept in libraries for remembrance and not for the popular readership…", on thick sheets, one side of which is of a special texture and gold-colored.
In the beginning of the book Deinard declares that he wishes to tell how "he [Montefiore] was made the idol of the miserable innocents". Later Deinard writes that in fact Montefiore achieved nothing by his lobbying, that he was a miser and hard-hearted and that he closed his ears to the true needs of the poor of Palestine. In addition he claims that Sebag-Montefiore unjustly held in his possession property bought with the money of Judah Touro for Jerusalem's poor. At the end of the book are facsimile plates of a letter sent by Jerusalem's rabbis to Sebag-Montefiore. Deinard's claims are intertwined with his aggressive claims against Hassidism, Christianity and socialism, and he tends to accuse all of his enemies (including Montefiore) that they are tainted by all three.
Ephraim Deinard (1846-1930) - bibliographer and Hebrew author, book collector and trader; one of the greatest Hebrew bibliographers of the modern era. Deinard was a historian and polemicist, considered a colorful and fascinating figure. He was born in the town of Sasmaka (currently Valdemārpils, Latvia). From a young age he embarked on numerous journeys around the world, studying different Jewish communities and collecting Hebrew books and manuscripts. In the 1880s he was the owner of a bookstore in Odessa. In 1888 he immigrated to the U.S., where he engaged in book trading; among other things, he attempted to found an agricultural Jewish settlement in Nevada. After this attempt failed, he immigrated to Palestine in 1913, settling in Ramla. There he also promoted the founding of an agricultural Jewish settlement, but in 1916 he was expelled by the Turks, forcing him to return to the United States.
24 columns, [2] plates, 36 cm. Good overall condition. Top edges of sheets uncut (only one sheet is cut). Library stamps. Pencil inscription. Some wear and rubbing to the sheets' folding lines. Cloth binding, restored on its inner side and slightly unraveled. Stains to binding. Bookplate.
A book about Moses Montefiore and his nephew-inheritor Joseph Sebag-Montefiore and Deinard's claims pertaining to them. Printed in fifty copies only, "To be kept in libraries for remembrance and not for the popular readership…", on thick sheets, one side of which is of a special texture and gold-colored.
In the beginning of the book Deinard declares that he wishes to tell how "he [Montefiore] was made the idol of the miserable innocents". Later Deinard writes that in fact Montefiore achieved nothing by his lobbying, that he was a miser and hard-hearted and that he closed his ears to the true needs of the poor of Palestine. In addition he claims that Sebag-Montefiore unjustly held in his possession property bought with the money of Judah Touro for Jerusalem's poor. At the end of the book are facsimile plates of a letter sent by Jerusalem's rabbis to Sebag-Montefiore. Deinard's claims are intertwined with his aggressive claims against Hassidism, Christianity and socialism, and he tends to accuse all of his enemies (including Montefiore) that they are tainted by all three.
Ephraim Deinard (1846-1930) - bibliographer and Hebrew author, book collector and trader; one of the greatest Hebrew bibliographers of the modern era. Deinard was a historian and polemicist, considered a colorful and fascinating figure. He was born in the town of Sasmaka (currently Valdemārpils, Latvia). From a young age he embarked on numerous journeys around the world, studying different Jewish communities and collecting Hebrew books and manuscripts. In the 1880s he was the owner of a bookstore in Odessa. In 1888 he immigrated to the U.S., where he engaged in book trading; among other things, he attempted to found an agricultural Jewish settlement in Nevada. After this attempt failed, he immigrated to Palestine in 1913, settling in Ramla. There he also promoted the founding of an agricultural Jewish settlement, but in 1916 he was expelled by the Turks, forcing him to return to the United States.
24 columns, [2] plates, 36 cm. Good overall condition. Top edges of sheets uncut (only one sheet is cut). Library stamps. Pencil inscription. Some wear and rubbing to the sheets' folding lines. Cloth binding, restored on its inner side and slightly unraveled. Stains to binding. Bookplate.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $7,000
Sold for: $20,000
Including buyer's premium
In der Strafkolonie [In the Penal Colony], by Franz Kafka. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, 1919. German.
Copy from the first edition of the book "In the Penal Colony". Printed in 1,000 copies.
On the first page appears a handwritten dedication (in German): Für Erwin Arnstein, im Dankbarkeit für das Glück, das von ihn ausging ("For Erwin Arnstein, with many thanks for the happiness which he emanated"), signed "K" (Franz Kafka) and dated: Prague, 1923.
Erwin Arnstein was a teacher in the elementary school for Jews in Prague. The author Franz Kafka, whose niece was a pupil in the school, appreciated Arnstein's attitude towards his students, and in 1923, before Arnstein emigrated to Palestine, he awarded him this
copy of the book as a farewell gift.
For additional information about Arnstein and his acquaintance with Kafka, see: Kafka, Zionism and Beyond, edited by Mark H. Gelber, published by M. Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2004.
68, [2] pp, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Slight stains and defects (mostly at margins). Cover almost completely detached, with defects and tears along the spine and at margins. A paper label with the title of the book is pasted on the front cover, slightly torn at margins.
Copy from the first edition of the book "In the Penal Colony". Printed in 1,000 copies.
On the first page appears a handwritten dedication (in German): Für Erwin Arnstein, im Dankbarkeit für das Glück, das von ihn ausging ("For Erwin Arnstein, with many thanks for the happiness which he emanated"), signed "K" (Franz Kafka) and dated: Prague, 1923.
Erwin Arnstein was a teacher in the elementary school for Jews in Prague. The author Franz Kafka, whose niece was a pupil in the school, appreciated Arnstein's attitude towards his students, and in 1923, before Arnstein emigrated to Palestine, he awarded him this
copy of the book as a farewell gift.
For additional information about Arnstein and his acquaintance with Kafka, see: Kafka, Zionism and Beyond, edited by Mark H. Gelber, published by M. Niemeyer, Tübingen, 2004.
68, [2] pp, approx. 23 cm. Good condition. Slight stains and defects (mostly at margins). Cover almost completely detached, with defects and tears along the spine and at margins. A paper label with the title of the book is pasted on the front cover, slightly torn at margins.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $5,000
Sold for: $42,500
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Letter handwritten and signed by German composer Richard Wagner. Apparently sent to the French author, philosopher and musicologist Édouard Schuré. Luzerne (Switzerland), 25 April 1869. German.
In the letter, Wagner expresses his anti-Semitic opinions on French and German Jews, while attempting to explain to his friend the idea at the basis of his essay "Judaism in Music". Among other things Wagner writes that the assimilation of Jews into French society prevents the French from distinguishing the "corroding influence of the Jewish spirit on modern culture", discusses the importance of distinguishing between a Jewish-German individual and a "true" German (regarding which he writes: "To lump together Heine, Goethe, Meyerbeer, and perhaps myself, that ends in the kind of confusion suffered by the French conception of the German character"), and notes that the German press is entirely in Jewish hands.
At the beginning of the letter Wagner refers to an essay published by his friend (the letter's addressee) in the French periodical Revue des Deux Monde.
The addressee is apparently Édouard Schuré, a French author, philosopher and musicologist whose essay on Wagner's works, "Le drame musical et l'oeuvre de M. Richard Wagner" , was published in Revue des Deux Monde about two weeks before Wagner wrote the present letter.
The German composer and essayist Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) gained fame mostly for the operas he composed. His works, considered original and pioneering in his time, influenced the development of the musical language of opera and classical music in general. Wagner was known for his stark anti-Semitism, often voicing his opinions against the assimilation of Jews into German culture. He expressed his anti-Semitic worldview in, among other places, his essay "Judaism in Music" (first published in 1850 under the pen name K. Freigedenk, and again in 1869 under Wagner's full name). In this essay Wagner argued that the Jews are incapable of engaging in music and warned against the "Judaization" of art in general and of music in particular.
Due to Wagner's anti-Semitism, his works were not played in public in Israel and for many years were not broadcast on public media channels.
[1] leaf, folded in two (four written pages), 18.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and light stains.
In the letter, Wagner expresses his anti-Semitic opinions on French and German Jews, while attempting to explain to his friend the idea at the basis of his essay "Judaism in Music". Among other things Wagner writes that the assimilation of Jews into French society prevents the French from distinguishing the "corroding influence of the Jewish spirit on modern culture", discusses the importance of distinguishing between a Jewish-German individual and a "true" German (regarding which he writes: "To lump together Heine, Goethe, Meyerbeer, and perhaps myself, that ends in the kind of confusion suffered by the French conception of the German character"), and notes that the German press is entirely in Jewish hands.
At the beginning of the letter Wagner refers to an essay published by his friend (the letter's addressee) in the French periodical Revue des Deux Monde.
The addressee is apparently Édouard Schuré, a French author, philosopher and musicologist whose essay on Wagner's works, "Le drame musical et l'oeuvre de M. Richard Wagner" , was published in Revue des Deux Monde about two weeks before Wagner wrote the present letter.
The German composer and essayist Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-1883) gained fame mostly for the operas he composed. His works, considered original and pioneering in his time, influenced the development of the musical language of opera and classical music in general. Wagner was known for his stark anti-Semitism, often voicing his opinions against the assimilation of Jews into German culture. He expressed his anti-Semitic worldview in, among other places, his essay "Judaism in Music" (first published in 1850 under the pen name K. Freigedenk, and again in 1869 under Wagner's full name). In this essay Wagner argued that the Jews are incapable of engaging in music and warned against the "Judaization" of art in general and of music in particular.
Due to Wagner's anti-Semitism, his works were not played in public in Israel and for many years were not broadcast on public media channels.
[1] leaf, folded in two (four written pages), 18.5 cm. Good condition. Folding marks and light stains.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $2,000
Sold for: $2,500
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Collection of handwritten notes and leaves of writings, which were used for the preparation of entries for the "Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew" (Ben-Yehuda's Dictionary) - all refer to words starting with the letter "Shin".
The collection includes:
· About 108 handwritten notes with words and short comments that are related to them: references, sources, quotations, and examples from Hebrew literature throughout the generations, which were used by Ben-Yehuda and his successors while preparing the entries starting with the letter "Shin" in the dictionary. At least 18 of the notes were written by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and relate to different words starting with "Shin" which Ben-Yehuda included in this dictionary (some notes with only single words written by him). About 90 of the notes were handwritten by successors of Ben-Yehuda who edited the dictionary (see hereunder).
· 40 handwritten leaves (different handwritings, of Ben-Yehuda's successors), drafts for various entries (as well as several leaves referring only to one word "Shmama").
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922) pioneer of Hebrew speech and the study of Hebrew; the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language. Ben-Yehuda spread his ideas through his newspapers, founded "Va'ad HaLashon" and composed the "Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew", which is considered his lifetime endeavor. The dictionary was published gradually during the years 1908-1959; the complete dictionary consists of sixteen volumes, with the addition of an introductory volume. The first five volumes were printed prior to World War I and were the only ones published before Ben-Yehuda's death. Ben-Yehuda did edit the sixth and seventh volumes prior to his death, and they were printed posthumously (thanks to efforts on the part of his widow Hemda and their son Ehud and with the assistance of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's secretary, Moshe Bar-Nissim). The eighth and ninth volumes were edited by Moshe Tsvi Segal, while the remaining volumes, including the introduction, were edited by Naftali Hertz Torczyner (Tur-Sinai).
The items were exhibited in an exhibition devoted to of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, held in Holon in 1964. Enclosed: Four photographs from the exhibition (seen in one of the photographs is Ben-Yehuda's son, Ehud, talking about his father).
Size of notes varies; average size: 12X8 cm (some are smaller or larger). Dry and fragile paper. Tears and creases at margins. Some notes are written on printed paper (secondary use). 40 leaves, approx. 12X30 cm. Tears at margins, some folding marks and creases. Photographs are mounted on Bristol leaves.
The collection includes:
· About 108 handwritten notes with words and short comments that are related to them: references, sources, quotations, and examples from Hebrew literature throughout the generations, which were used by Ben-Yehuda and his successors while preparing the entries starting with the letter "Shin" in the dictionary. At least 18 of the notes were written by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and relate to different words starting with "Shin" which Ben-Yehuda included in this dictionary (some notes with only single words written by him). About 90 of the notes were handwritten by successors of Ben-Yehuda who edited the dictionary (see hereunder).
· 40 handwritten leaves (different handwritings, of Ben-Yehuda's successors), drafts for various entries (as well as several leaves referring only to one word "Shmama").
Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858-1922) pioneer of Hebrew speech and the study of Hebrew; the driving spirit behind the revival of the Hebrew language. Ben-Yehuda spread his ideas through his newspapers, founded "Va'ad HaLashon" and composed the "Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew", which is considered his lifetime endeavor. The dictionary was published gradually during the years 1908-1959; the complete dictionary consists of sixteen volumes, with the addition of an introductory volume. The first five volumes were printed prior to World War I and were the only ones published before Ben-Yehuda's death. Ben-Yehuda did edit the sixth and seventh volumes prior to his death, and they were printed posthumously (thanks to efforts on the part of his widow Hemda and their son Ehud and with the assistance of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda's secretary, Moshe Bar-Nissim). The eighth and ninth volumes were edited by Moshe Tsvi Segal, while the remaining volumes, including the introduction, were edited by Naftali Hertz Torczyner (Tur-Sinai).
The items were exhibited in an exhibition devoted to of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, held in Holon in 1964. Enclosed: Four photographs from the exhibition (seen in one of the photographs is Ben-Yehuda's son, Ehud, talking about his father).
Size of notes varies; average size: 12X8 cm (some are smaller or larger). Dry and fragile paper. Tears and creases at margins. Some notes are written on printed paper (secondary use). 40 leaves, approx. 12X30 cm. Tears at margins, some folding marks and creases. Photographs are mounted on Bristol leaves.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $7,000
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An archive including more than one thousand letters, documents, posters, photographs, diaries, records and other items, from the estate of the violinist Mischa Weisbord. Various places in Europe, USA, China and Palestine, 1910s to the 1980s (most items are from the 1920s to the 1940s). German, French, Russian, English, Hebrew and other languages.
Mischa Weisbord (1907-1991) was a Jewish-Russian violinist who was highly successful in the first decades of the twentieth century and was named by his admirers the "New Paganini".
Weisbord started to play the violin when he was three years old. His father, Alexander, who was a violinist, discovered his son's great talent right away and sent him to study in St. Petersburg with the violinist Leopold Auer. In 1917, when the communist revolution broke out, the family had to immigrate to China, and from there Mischa and his father wandered to Brussels where he studied with the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe and started to perform on stage. His success was rapid. During the 1910s and 1920s Weisbord was declared a child prodigy and was invited to perform throughout Europe. In 1926 he played for the first time in "Carnegie Hall" in New York, and this was before he even turned twenty.
The year 1927 was supposed to be his year of exceptional success: Weisbord was invited for the second time to "Carnegie Hall", followed by a tour of performances throughout the United States. However, in the evening of the concert, for unknown reasons, Weisbord refused to go on stage, cancelled his tour and returned to Europe, interrupting his success abruptly. In future years Weisbord continued to perform in Europe, visited Palestine several times and even signed a recording contract (he recorded only three works during his life), but his career was never revived. He passed his last years in an apartment in Brooklyn, anonymously, until in 1991, after years of not playing, he died alone.
This archive includes:
· About 30 large studio photographs of Weisbord (nine of them in an exceptionally large format, approx. 35X45 cm), two of them signed and dedicated in his handwriting.
· Five albums with more than 800 photographs of Mischa and of his family members, including photographs of Mishca as a child, photographs of his family members, studio photographs from his period of success (some are signed), photographs from the family's days in China, photographs of Mishca in later years, and other photographs.
· Four Master records (78 rpm) issued by Gramophone Company, with the only three works that Weisbord ever recorded during his lifetime.
· Copy of a recording contract between Mischa Weisbord and Gramophone Company, dated 28.6.1922. Typewritten and signed by the company's representative Edmund Trevor Lloyd Williams (English).
· 20 advertising posters for Mischa's performances during the 1920s and 1930s, among them posters for performances in Brussels, Stockholm, Gothenburg, London, Berlin, and six advertising posters for performances in Palestine during a visit in 1929 (in "Zion" hall in Jerusalem, in the "Technion" in Haifa, in "Beit HaAm" in Tel-Aviv, and more). Lithographic illustrations of Weisbord appear on four posters.
· About 100 programs and prospectuses for Weisbord's performances from the years 1918-1955 (most of them from 1920s-30s), in Europe, the United States and Palestine.
· About 40 documents related to the professional career of Weisbord: contracts, performances time tables, entry visas to various countries, letters of recommendation and letters with complaints, a "thank you letter" from the Palmach "information department" following a performances for soldiers during the Independence War, and more.
· Three early diaries handwritten by Weisbord (Russian) from the years 1925, 1927 and 1930.
· About 10 letters and postcards in Weisbord's handwriting, sent to his mother and sister Sonia between the years 1933 and 1965.
· About 50 autograph letters, sent to Weisbord by family members during the years 1922-23, after he left Europe with his father.
· Notebooks, letters, sheet music, postcards, posters and prospectuses related to the musical career of Mischa's brothers Armond and Riva, and other items.
Enclosed: tens of newspaper clippings with articles and material about Weisbord (some are mounted on album leaves).
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Some items appear in more than one copy.
Literature:
1. Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race, Gdal Saleski, published by Bloch, New York, 1927, p. 257.
2. Selected Students of Leopold Auer: a Study in Violin Performance-Practice, Rodrigues, Ruth Elizabeth, Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009 (online).
Mischa Weisbord (1907-1991) was a Jewish-Russian violinist who was highly successful in the first decades of the twentieth century and was named by his admirers the "New Paganini".
Weisbord started to play the violin when he was three years old. His father, Alexander, who was a violinist, discovered his son's great talent right away and sent him to study in St. Petersburg with the violinist Leopold Auer. In 1917, when the communist revolution broke out, the family had to immigrate to China, and from there Mischa and his father wandered to Brussels where he studied with the violinist Eugène Ysaÿe and started to perform on stage. His success was rapid. During the 1910s and 1920s Weisbord was declared a child prodigy and was invited to perform throughout Europe. In 1926 he played for the first time in "Carnegie Hall" in New York, and this was before he even turned twenty.
The year 1927 was supposed to be his year of exceptional success: Weisbord was invited for the second time to "Carnegie Hall", followed by a tour of performances throughout the United States. However, in the evening of the concert, for unknown reasons, Weisbord refused to go on stage, cancelled his tour and returned to Europe, interrupting his success abruptly. In future years Weisbord continued to perform in Europe, visited Palestine several times and even signed a recording contract (he recorded only three works during his life), but his career was never revived. He passed his last years in an apartment in Brooklyn, anonymously, until in 1991, after years of not playing, he died alone.
This archive includes:
· About 30 large studio photographs of Weisbord (nine of them in an exceptionally large format, approx. 35X45 cm), two of them signed and dedicated in his handwriting.
· Five albums with more than 800 photographs of Mischa and of his family members, including photographs of Mishca as a child, photographs of his family members, studio photographs from his period of success (some are signed), photographs from the family's days in China, photographs of Mishca in later years, and other photographs.
· Four Master records (78 rpm) issued by Gramophone Company, with the only three works that Weisbord ever recorded during his lifetime.
· Copy of a recording contract between Mischa Weisbord and Gramophone Company, dated 28.6.1922. Typewritten and signed by the company's representative Edmund Trevor Lloyd Williams (English).
· 20 advertising posters for Mischa's performances during the 1920s and 1930s, among them posters for performances in Brussels, Stockholm, Gothenburg, London, Berlin, and six advertising posters for performances in Palestine during a visit in 1929 (in "Zion" hall in Jerusalem, in the "Technion" in Haifa, in "Beit HaAm" in Tel-Aviv, and more). Lithographic illustrations of Weisbord appear on four posters.
· About 100 programs and prospectuses for Weisbord's performances from the years 1918-1955 (most of them from 1920s-30s), in Europe, the United States and Palestine.
· About 40 documents related to the professional career of Weisbord: contracts, performances time tables, entry visas to various countries, letters of recommendation and letters with complaints, a "thank you letter" from the Palmach "information department" following a performances for soldiers during the Independence War, and more.
· Three early diaries handwritten by Weisbord (Russian) from the years 1925, 1927 and 1930.
· About 10 letters and postcards in Weisbord's handwriting, sent to his mother and sister Sonia between the years 1933 and 1965.
· About 50 autograph letters, sent to Weisbord by family members during the years 1922-23, after he left Europe with his father.
· Notebooks, letters, sheet music, postcards, posters and prospectuses related to the musical career of Mischa's brothers Armond and Riva, and other items.
Enclosed: tens of newspaper clippings with articles and material about Weisbord (some are mounted on album leaves).
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition. Some items appear in more than one copy.
Literature:
1. Famous Musicians of a Wandering Race, Gdal Saleski, published by Bloch, New York, 1927, p. 257.
2. Selected Students of Leopold Auer: a Study in Violin Performance-Practice, Rodrigues, Ruth Elizabeth, Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 2009 (online).
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $10,000
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About 350 letters and several paper items sent to Leon Locker, secretary of the Manchester chapter of the organization "Foreign Jews Protection Committee against Deportation to Russia". Manchester, London, Liverpool and other places, 1916-1919 (a few later letters). English and some Yiddish.
When World War I broke out, 300,000 Russian Jews, who fled pogroms in East Europe late in the 19th century, lived in England. The British government viewed these Jews as unemployed manpower, and published in 1917 a regulation that forced them to choose between two alternatives: volunteering to the English Army or being deported back to Russia. In order to help the Russian Jews secure their rights, an organization was founded - "Foreign Jews Protection Committee against Deportation to Russia" (FJCP); the organization was headed by Avraham Bezalel. The organization that united more than one hundred Jewish entities, opposed firmly to forced recruitment, and acted in various methods: obtaining exemption certificates issued by Russian consulates; obtaining medical documents which disqualified them from military service; receiving certificates for moving Jews to non-fighting units; guaranteeing the right of Jews who were deported to Russia to return to England after the war and finding allowances for families of deportees. There was known tension between the heads of the organization and Ze'ev Jabotinsky who had the idea of establishing the "Jewish Battalions" to fight alongside the British. At first the FJCP tried to prevent the founding of the battalions, but later some of the members changed their attitude, and some others even assisted Jews to be accepted to the battalions.
This collection includes about 350 letters, most of them are typewritten and several are handwritten, sent to the secretary of the organization in Manchester, Leon Locker, who in addition to his actions Vis-à-vis official entities had contacts with the "Jewish Battalions".
The collection includes:
· Tens of letters from the Russian Consulates in Manchester, Liverpool and London, with reports about the state of Jews deported to Russia, news about Jewish soldiers who were sent to the front, updates from hospitals, announcements about exemption certificates from military service, lists of families entitled to get an allowance and more subjects.
· Tens of letters sent by Jewish organizations active in England at the time, among them: United Russian Committee for Matter of Military Service, "Poale Zion", "Achay Brit", "Agudat HaMaccabim HaKadmonim", and more.
· Four short letters, typewritten and signed by hand, from an officer of Commanding Depot 32nd-42nd Battalions, Royal Fusiliers, from May-June 1918, discussing the addition of a Jewish soldier to the Battalion. Three letters are stamped on the upper left corner with the battalion's ink-stamp.
· Three letters, written by hand, sent to Locker by a Jewish soldier named G. Shapiro, asking to join the Jewish battalion, dated April-May 1918.
· Letters from elements in the English army, English government bodies, various welfare organizations, private persons and more.
· Application form for financial aid, for women whose husbands were sent to war (not filled-in. English and Russian).
· Three booklets printed in England about enlistment of Russian Jews to the army: · The Jew under the Oppressor's Iron Heel. Published by Russian Jews Relief Fund, Edinborough, [ca. 1910s]; · Jewish refugees and military service, the ethical aspect of compulsion under threat of deportation, by I. [Isaiah] Wassilevsky. Printed by The National Labour, Manchester, [1910s]. · An Appeal to Public Opinion, Should the Russian Refugees Be Deported, printed by National Labour, London, [ca. 1916]. The first booklet is not in OCLC. Two booklets are stamped with Locker's ink stamp.
For more information about the Manchester branch of the FJCP, see: Nonconformity in the Manchester Jewish Community: The Case of Political Radicalism 1889-1939, a PhD thesis submitted to Manchester University by Rosalyn D. Livshin, 2005 (online).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Filing holes, folding marks, creases and stains. Tears and open tears to some letters (mainly small, at margins). Numerous letters bear ink-stamps of different organizations.
When World War I broke out, 300,000 Russian Jews, who fled pogroms in East Europe late in the 19th century, lived in England. The British government viewed these Jews as unemployed manpower, and published in 1917 a regulation that forced them to choose between two alternatives: volunteering to the English Army or being deported back to Russia. In order to help the Russian Jews secure their rights, an organization was founded - "Foreign Jews Protection Committee against Deportation to Russia" (FJCP); the organization was headed by Avraham Bezalel. The organization that united more than one hundred Jewish entities, opposed firmly to forced recruitment, and acted in various methods: obtaining exemption certificates issued by Russian consulates; obtaining medical documents which disqualified them from military service; receiving certificates for moving Jews to non-fighting units; guaranteeing the right of Jews who were deported to Russia to return to England after the war and finding allowances for families of deportees. There was known tension between the heads of the organization and Ze'ev Jabotinsky who had the idea of establishing the "Jewish Battalions" to fight alongside the British. At first the FJCP tried to prevent the founding of the battalions, but later some of the members changed their attitude, and some others even assisted Jews to be accepted to the battalions.
This collection includes about 350 letters, most of them are typewritten and several are handwritten, sent to the secretary of the organization in Manchester, Leon Locker, who in addition to his actions Vis-à-vis official entities had contacts with the "Jewish Battalions".
The collection includes:
· Tens of letters from the Russian Consulates in Manchester, Liverpool and London, with reports about the state of Jews deported to Russia, news about Jewish soldiers who were sent to the front, updates from hospitals, announcements about exemption certificates from military service, lists of families entitled to get an allowance and more subjects.
· Tens of letters sent by Jewish organizations active in England at the time, among them: United Russian Committee for Matter of Military Service, "Poale Zion", "Achay Brit", "Agudat HaMaccabim HaKadmonim", and more.
· Four short letters, typewritten and signed by hand, from an officer of Commanding Depot 32nd-42nd Battalions, Royal Fusiliers, from May-June 1918, discussing the addition of a Jewish soldier to the Battalion. Three letters are stamped on the upper left corner with the battalion's ink-stamp.
· Three letters, written by hand, sent to Locker by a Jewish soldier named G. Shapiro, asking to join the Jewish battalion, dated April-May 1918.
· Letters from elements in the English army, English government bodies, various welfare organizations, private persons and more.
· Application form for financial aid, for women whose husbands were sent to war (not filled-in. English and Russian).
· Three booklets printed in England about enlistment of Russian Jews to the army: · The Jew under the Oppressor's Iron Heel. Published by Russian Jews Relief Fund, Edinborough, [ca. 1910s]; · Jewish refugees and military service, the ethical aspect of compulsion under threat of deportation, by I. [Isaiah] Wassilevsky. Printed by The National Labour, Manchester, [1910s]. · An Appeal to Public Opinion, Should the Russian Refugees Be Deported, printed by National Labour, London, [ca. 1916]. The first booklet is not in OCLC. Two booklets are stamped with Locker's ink stamp.
For more information about the Manchester branch of the FJCP, see: Nonconformity in the Manchester Jewish Community: The Case of Political Radicalism 1889-1939, a PhD thesis submitted to Manchester University by Rosalyn D. Livshin, 2005 (online).
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Filing holes, folding marks, creases and stains. Tears and open tears to some letters (mainly small, at margins). Numerous letters bear ink-stamps of different organizations.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $2,800
Sold for: $3,500
Including buyer's premium
Fifteen postcards with photographs of pogrom victims in Babruysk, Zhitomir, Yekaterinoslav, Kishinev and other places. Different publishers and printing locations, early 20th century.
Among the postcards: · Two postcards with photographs of victims of the Kishinev pogrom (undivided, sent by mail in 1903). An inscription written by hand appears on the lower margins of each postcard (in French): "Russie pittoresque (Kichineff)" [picturesque Russia (Kishinev)]. · Two postcards with "Pictures of victims of Zhitomir pogroms 23-26 April 1905" (undivided). On each postcard appears a picture of a memorial plaque with photographs of the victims, printed leaves and items placed for decoration (the plaques differ from each other). · Postcards with a photograph of victims of a pogrom in Babruysk, published by Comite Executif de la Conference Universelle Juive de Secours [executive committee of the Universal Jewish Emergency Conference], Paris, [ca.1920]. On the bottom margin, on the back, appears an appeal for donations, in Yiddish, French and English. · Postcard with photograph of victims of a pogrom in Yekaterinoslav (Dnipro). Published by "Poale Zion". Three postcards with illustrations (one published by "Levanon" company). · More postcards.
Seven postcards are undivided. Three were sent by mail.
Total of 15 postcards, approx. 9X14 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Stains (mainly to the back). Slight defects at margins.
Among the postcards: · Two postcards with photographs of victims of the Kishinev pogrom (undivided, sent by mail in 1903). An inscription written by hand appears on the lower margins of each postcard (in French): "Russie pittoresque (Kichineff)" [picturesque Russia (Kishinev)]. · Two postcards with "Pictures of victims of Zhitomir pogroms 23-26 April 1905" (undivided). On each postcard appears a picture of a memorial plaque with photographs of the victims, printed leaves and items placed for decoration (the plaques differ from each other). · Postcards with a photograph of victims of a pogrom in Babruysk, published by Comite Executif de la Conference Universelle Juive de Secours [executive committee of the Universal Jewish Emergency Conference], Paris, [ca.1920]. On the bottom margin, on the back, appears an appeal for donations, in Yiddish, French and English. · Postcard with photograph of victims of a pogrom in Yekaterinoslav (Dnipro). Published by "Poale Zion". Three postcards with illustrations (one published by "Levanon" company). · More postcards.
Seven postcards are undivided. Three were sent by mail.
Total of 15 postcards, approx. 9X14 cm. Condition varies. Good overall condition. Stains (mainly to the back). Slight defects at margins.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $3,800
Unsold
42 postcards with photographs from Birobidzhan and the Jewish agricultural settlements in the Ukraine and the Crimean peninsula. Printed in Moscow, in cooperation with OZET, [ca. 1930s]. Russian.
Collection of postcards depicting agricultural settlements in Birobidzhan, in the Ukraine and in the Crimean peninsula. The photographs printed on the postcards show the various settlements and their residents (group photographs, photographs showing work in the fields, and more). One of the postcards shows a photograph of the plane "Der Birobidzhaner" (prior to its flight to the Ukraine). Some of the postcards show photographic portraits of Communist leaders and activists, including Joseph Stalin and Semyon Dimanstein, chairman of the OZET council and head of the Yevsektsiya.
During the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War, hundreds of thousands of Jews lost their sources of income. In the early 1920s, Jewish Communists and public figures attempted to promote the idea of retraining the impoverished Jewish social strata for work in agriculture, and in 1924 the Komzet was founded - the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land. During its first session, the Komzet directorate set the goal of retraining about 100,000 Jewish families for agricultural work. In the same year, the OZET organization was founded (the Public Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union). OZET was supposed to assist in implementing the goals set by the Komzet. The activities of these organizations, as well as that of the "Agro-Joint" (the executive branch of the JDA in Soviet Russia) brought about the founding of Jewish agricultural settlements in the Crimean peninsula and in southern Ukraine, including settlements in the provinces of Kalinidorf, Neizlatopol (Novo-Zlatopol) and Stalindorf (all three were declared Jewish provinces in the years 1927-1930). In 1934, the Jewish Autonomous Region was established in the Russian Far East, with the city of Birobidzhan as its capital. Stalin's great purges of the 1930s, during which the organizations OZET and Komzet were closed and Jewish leaders were arrested and executed, put an end to the development of the Jewish Autonomous Region. By contrast, the Jewish agricultural settlements in the Ukraine continued to exist until the occupation of these regions by the Germans in 1941.
42 postcards, 14X10 cm. Good overall condition (the postcards were never used). Defects and light stains to some of the postcards. Ink stamps to reverse of some of the postcards. One of the postcards is slightly damaged (with a horizontal folding line, gluing marks and paper peeling to the postcard's reverse, and pen inscriptions).
See: "From the Prairies of the Ukraine and Crimea to the Land of Hardship - Birobidzhan: On the History of the Yevsektsiya's Yearning for a National Jewish Republic in the Soviet Union", by Matityahu Mintz. "Israel", booklet 21, spring 2013, published by the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel.
Collection of postcards depicting agricultural settlements in Birobidzhan, in the Ukraine and in the Crimean peninsula. The photographs printed on the postcards show the various settlements and their residents (group photographs, photographs showing work in the fields, and more). One of the postcards shows a photograph of the plane "Der Birobidzhaner" (prior to its flight to the Ukraine). Some of the postcards show photographic portraits of Communist leaders and activists, including Joseph Stalin and Semyon Dimanstein, chairman of the OZET council and head of the Yevsektsiya.
During the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution and the Russian Civil War, hundreds of thousands of Jews lost their sources of income. In the early 1920s, Jewish Communists and public figures attempted to promote the idea of retraining the impoverished Jewish social strata for work in agriculture, and in 1924 the Komzet was founded - the Committee for the Settlement of Toiling Jews on the Land. During its first session, the Komzet directorate set the goal of retraining about 100,000 Jewish families for agricultural work. In the same year, the OZET organization was founded (the Public Society for Settling Toiling Jews on the Land in the Soviet Union). OZET was supposed to assist in implementing the goals set by the Komzet. The activities of these organizations, as well as that of the "Agro-Joint" (the executive branch of the JDA in Soviet Russia) brought about the founding of Jewish agricultural settlements in the Crimean peninsula and in southern Ukraine, including settlements in the provinces of Kalinidorf, Neizlatopol (Novo-Zlatopol) and Stalindorf (all three were declared Jewish provinces in the years 1927-1930). In 1934, the Jewish Autonomous Region was established in the Russian Far East, with the city of Birobidzhan as its capital. Stalin's great purges of the 1930s, during which the organizations OZET and Komzet were closed and Jewish leaders were arrested and executed, put an end to the development of the Jewish Autonomous Region. By contrast, the Jewish agricultural settlements in the Ukraine continued to exist until the occupation of these regions by the Germans in 1941.
42 postcards, 14X10 cm. Good overall condition (the postcards were never used). Defects and light stains to some of the postcards. Ink stamps to reverse of some of the postcards. One of the postcards is slightly damaged (with a horizontal folding line, gluing marks and paper peeling to the postcard's reverse, and pen inscriptions).
See: "From the Prairies of the Ukraine and Crimea to the Land of Hardship - Birobidzhan: On the History of the Yevsektsiya's Yearning for a National Jewish Republic in the Soviet Union", by Matityahu Mintz. "Israel", booklet 21, spring 2013, published by the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $1,600
Sold for: $2,000
Including buyer's premium
27 "Shanah Tovah" postcards and greeting cards. Palestine, Europe and the United States, late 19th / first half of 20th century.
Among the postcards and greeting cards: · "Shanah Tovah" greeting card printed in golden ink on a red transparency (text in Hebrew and French). · Postcard published by Max Victor, Köln, with illustrations of Rachel's Tomb, the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock (sent in 1898). · A postcard with portraits of Emil Zola and Alfred Dreyfus (printed in Prague). · A JNF postcard printed in Vienna, with a photograph of the colony Ekron. · Postcard published by Lichtenfeld, Bratislava. · A postcard sent to Tchernovitz in 1900. · Four Palestinian postcards with photographs (photo-montage), 1920s-30s. · Two American postcards with photographs (photo-montage), and more.
Size varies. Condition varies, fair to good. Five postcards are undivided.
Among the postcards and greeting cards: · "Shanah Tovah" greeting card printed in golden ink on a red transparency (text in Hebrew and French). · Postcard published by Max Victor, Köln, with illustrations of Rachel's Tomb, the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock (sent in 1898). · A postcard with portraits of Emil Zola and Alfred Dreyfus (printed in Prague). · A JNF postcard printed in Vienna, with a photograph of the colony Ekron. · Postcard published by Lichtenfeld, Bratislava. · A postcard sent to Tchernovitz in 1900. · Four Palestinian postcards with photographs (photo-montage), 1920s-30s. · Two American postcards with photographs (photo-montage), and more.
Size varies. Condition varies, fair to good. Five postcards are undivided.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $10,000
Sold for: $12,500
Including buyer's premium
1. Official postcard, First Zionist Congress (1897). Riemer No. 1. Very good condition.
2. Official postcard, Second Zionist Congress (1898). Riemer no. 3. Good condition. Sent by mail. Peeling at the back.
3. Official postcard, Third Zionist Congress (1899). Printed on greenish paper. Riemer no. 4. Very good condition.
4. Official postcard, fourth Zionist Congress (1900). Riemer no. 5. Good condition. Sent by mail. Stains.
5. Official postcard, Fifth Zionist Congress (1901). On the front appears Theodor Herzl's signature (signed "Herzl"), and several additional signatures. Riemer No. 6. Good condition. Sent by mail.
6. An unofficial postcard, Sixth Zionist Congress (1903). On top of the postcard, upside down, appears a short sentence written by hand, apparently in Theodor Herzl's handwriting: "Dr. Nordau hat eben wunderbar gesprochen" [Dr. Nordau just delivered a wonderful speech]. In the sixth Zionist Congress, also named "Uganda Congress", a vote was held for the plan to settle Jews in Uganda, Africa (supported by Herzl and Nordau), a plan which led to controversy and to arguments in the Zionist Movement. Apparently Herzl's comment refers to Nordau's speech about this subject. The postcard was sent from Basel on August 24 and is stamped "Kongress" on the back. Does not appear in Riemer. Good condition. Stains and creases at corners.
7. Postcard sent from the Sixth Zionist Congress (1903). Sent from Basel on August 25, by J. Benenson [most probably Joshua Benenson] from the Congressbureau to Michel Zeitlin. Stamped "Kongress" on the back. Does not appear in Riemer. Good condition. Stains and creases at corners.
8. Official postcard, Seventh Zionist Congress (1905). Riemer No. 9. Sent to Max Schatz by his aunt, Fanny Wolffsohn, wife of David Wolffsohn. Good condition.
9. Official postcard, Seventh Zionist Congress (1905). Riemer no. 9 (slight typographic differences and a difference in the printed date). On the postcard appears a letter with impressions from the congress (mentioning Herzl and Nordau). Good condition.
10. Official postcard, Ninth Zionist Congress (1909). Riemer no. 22. Congress ink-stamp. Good condition. Sent by mail.
11. Official postcard, Tenth Zionist Congress (1911). Riemer no. 27. Good condition. Sent by mail.
12-13. Two official postcards, Eleventh Zionist Congress (1913). Riemer no. 28 and no. 30. Good condition. Sent by mail.
14. A postcard sent by Trude Herzl (daughter of Theodor Herzl) to Mrs. Betty Leszynsky in Berlin, signed by Trude Herzl and bearing a short greeting in David Wolffsohn's handwriting (signed). Good condition.
Literature: The Official Postcards and Special Cancellations of the Zionist Congresses, Prof. Dr. H. M. Riemer, Switzerland, published by Society of Israel Philatelists, Beachwood, Ohio, ca. 1980.
2. Official postcard, Second Zionist Congress (1898). Riemer no. 3. Good condition. Sent by mail. Peeling at the back.
3. Official postcard, Third Zionist Congress (1899). Printed on greenish paper. Riemer no. 4. Very good condition.
4. Official postcard, fourth Zionist Congress (1900). Riemer no. 5. Good condition. Sent by mail. Stains.
5. Official postcard, Fifth Zionist Congress (1901). On the front appears Theodor Herzl's signature (signed "Herzl"), and several additional signatures. Riemer No. 6. Good condition. Sent by mail.
6. An unofficial postcard, Sixth Zionist Congress (1903). On top of the postcard, upside down, appears a short sentence written by hand, apparently in Theodor Herzl's handwriting: "Dr. Nordau hat eben wunderbar gesprochen" [Dr. Nordau just delivered a wonderful speech]. In the sixth Zionist Congress, also named "Uganda Congress", a vote was held for the plan to settle Jews in Uganda, Africa (supported by Herzl and Nordau), a plan which led to controversy and to arguments in the Zionist Movement. Apparently Herzl's comment refers to Nordau's speech about this subject. The postcard was sent from Basel on August 24 and is stamped "Kongress" on the back. Does not appear in Riemer. Good condition. Stains and creases at corners.
7. Postcard sent from the Sixth Zionist Congress (1903). Sent from Basel on August 25, by J. Benenson [most probably Joshua Benenson] from the Congressbureau to Michel Zeitlin. Stamped "Kongress" on the back. Does not appear in Riemer. Good condition. Stains and creases at corners.
8. Official postcard, Seventh Zionist Congress (1905). Riemer No. 9. Sent to Max Schatz by his aunt, Fanny Wolffsohn, wife of David Wolffsohn. Good condition.
9. Official postcard, Seventh Zionist Congress (1905). Riemer no. 9 (slight typographic differences and a difference in the printed date). On the postcard appears a letter with impressions from the congress (mentioning Herzl and Nordau). Good condition.
10. Official postcard, Ninth Zionist Congress (1909). Riemer no. 22. Congress ink-stamp. Good condition. Sent by mail.
11. Official postcard, Tenth Zionist Congress (1911). Riemer no. 27. Good condition. Sent by mail.
12-13. Two official postcards, Eleventh Zionist Congress (1913). Riemer no. 28 and no. 30. Good condition. Sent by mail.
14. A postcard sent by Trude Herzl (daughter of Theodor Herzl) to Mrs. Betty Leszynsky in Berlin, signed by Trude Herzl and bearing a short greeting in David Wolffsohn's handwriting (signed). Good condition.
Literature: The Official Postcards and Special Cancellations of the Zionist Congresses, Prof. Dr. H. M. Riemer, Switzerland, published by Society of Israel Philatelists, Beachwood, Ohio, ca. 1980.
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Auction 61 - Rare and Important Items
April 24, 2018
Opening: $4,500
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A terracotta relief, profile portrait of Theodor Herzl, by Boris Schatz. Signed: Boris Schatz, Wien. [Vienna, ca. 1903-1905].
The relief depicts a profile portrait of Herzl, with a legend below: "Dr. Theodor Herzl".
Framed in a black wooden frame, with a carved monogram of the letters "Herzl" on its upper part, with two stylized Stars of David on both sides and a schematic depiction of Rachel's Tomb.
Size of relief: 26X38.5 cm. Size of frame: 37.5X55.5 cm. Good condition. Break through the width of the board, glued in a non-professional manner. Slight damages to frame.
The relief depicts a profile portrait of Herzl, with a legend below: "Dr. Theodor Herzl".
Framed in a black wooden frame, with a carved monogram of the letters "Herzl" on its upper part, with two stylized Stars of David on both sides and a schematic depiction of Rachel's Tomb.
Size of relief: 26X38.5 cm. Size of frame: 37.5X55.5 cm. Good condition. Break through the width of the board, glued in a non-professional manner. Slight damages to frame.
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