Auction 81 - The Wily Lindwer Collection

Collection of Postcards – Zionist Congresses / Herzl and Zionism

Opening: $500
Unsold
26 postcards with Zionist themes: Theodor Herzl, Zionist congresses, and Zionist leaders. Various publishers and locales, [late 19th century / early 20th century].
1-11. Eleven postcards issued on the occasion of different Zionist congresses, including: postcard featuring portraits of Theodor Herzl and Max Nordau and the emblem of the First Zionist Congress; official postcard of the Fifth Zionist Congress (1902); real photo postcard showing Max Nordau delivering an address to the Seventh Zionist Congress (1905); two postcards with photographs of athletes at the Tenth Zionist Congress (1911); and more.
12-21. Ten postcards with portraits of Theodor Herzl, including: undivided-back postcards issued around the time of Herzl's passing; a real photo postcard showing Herzl with two Jewish individuals from the Caucasus at the Sixth Zionist Congress (1903); and more.
22-23. Printed postcard and real photo postcard showing Herzl's grave in the Herzl family burial plot in Vienna.
24-26. Three Zionist postcards: two with portraits of Zvi Hermann Schapira, the Zionist visionary who gave rise to the idea of the Jewish National Fund, and Jacobus Henricus Kann, one of the three members of the Executive Committee of the World Zionist Organization; and a postcard issued by the Jewish National Fund as a token of appreciation for olive trees donated by a girl from Odessa in honor of Menahem Ussishkin.
Average size: 9X14 cm. Condition varies.
Israeliana and Zionism
Israeliana and Zionism