Auction 45 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"Buy the Shekel" - Tel Aviv - Otte Wallisch

Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,500
Including buyer's premium
"Buy the Shekel". Designer: Otte Wallisch (not signed). A. Koffman printing press, [1940s].
Illustration in color of a tree in the field, inscribed on the bottom: "Branches from our nation are being cut off and falling, but the tree is still alive. Give a hand to the revival of our people, be a member of the Zionist Organization! Buy the Shekel" (Hebrew and Yiddish). See: Catalogue " All the land front, our nation army, poster exhibition From Zionism 2000" - identical poster, without the Yiddish inscription, with an addition of a Star of David in the center. Ca.69X98.5 cm. Mounted on cardboard. Good condition. Stains, folding marks and creases. Framed (unexamined out of frame).
Posters, "Bezalel", Bibliophilia, Israeli and International Art
Posters, "Bezalel", Bibliophilia, Israeli and International Art