Auction 84 - Jewish and Israeli History, Culture and Art

Including: Items from the Estate of Ruth Dayan, Old Master Works, Israeli Art and Numismatics

Collection of Ephemera from Hotels in Palestine/Israel – Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and Elsewhere, 1920s-50s

Opening: $200
Sold for: $1,250
Including buyer's premium
Approx. 50 pieces of ephemera from hotels and guesthouses in Palestine/Israel, including menus, invitations, letters, receipts, and more. Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and elsewhere, ca. 1920s-50s. Hebrew, English, French, German, and Arabic. Included: • Ephemera from Jerusalem's King David Hotel: an illustrated advertising brochure, various menus (including menus for Christmas and New Year's dinners, 1937-38, some with illustrations), paper labels, letters written on the hotel's letterhead stationery, and more. • Ephemera from various hotels and guesthouses in Jerusalem: Hotel Fast, Allenby Hotel, Warshavsky Hotel, Grand New Hotel, and more. • Handwritten letters on letterhead stationery of hotels in Tel-Aviv-Jaffa: Hotel Joseph Soffer (letter from 1917), Moshe Sheftel's New York Hotel (1926), the Ritz Hotel (1935), Gat Rimmon Hotel, Hotel Pension Karpin (handwritten letter dated 1939 by author Rabbi Binyamin; signed "Y. Redler-Feldman"), and more. • Letter in Arabic on the Hotel Tiberias letterhead stationery. • Instruction brochure for guests of the Kefar HaChoresh guest house and convalescent home (founded by the Margo'ah La'Oved company). • And additional items. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Establishment of the State of Israel
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Illigal Immigration, British Detention Camps, The Establishment of the State of Israel