Auction 60 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Collection of Postcards and Photographs - "Maccabi" and Sports Competitions in Palestine

Opening: $1,500
Unsold
35 photographs, postcards, real-photo postcards and printed cards, related to "Maccabi" sports club, to other sports organizations and sports competitions held in Palestine. Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and other places, 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s (a number of items may be from the 1910s).
Among the items: * Group photograph of "Maccabi" members in Kfar Saba, 1930. * Postcard with a photograph of "Maccabi" gymnasts in Jerusalem. * Group photograph of "Maccabi" Tel-Aviv sportsmen. A gift for their coach, with a dedication from 1926. * Photograph of girls exercising (in the yard of a girls' school in Neve Zedek?), 1920s. * Football team in Hadera, 1928. * Photographs from different "Maccabi" conventions in 1929 and 1930 (seen in one photograph is Meir Dizengoff, Mayor of Tel Aviv). * Printed cards with photographs from the first national convention of "Hapoel" in Tel-Aviv, Succot, 1928. * Photographs from a bicycle riding competition in Tel-Aviv, 1926. * Photographs from a bicycle riding competition in a court near Jaffa, 1932. * Football game against "Hapoel" Nesher, 1936. * Real-photo postcard from a football game between "Beitar" Tel-Aviv and "Maccabi" Netanya, 1946. * More items.
Enclosed: a postcard printed for the"Maccabi" convention in Czechoslovakia in 1929.
Size varies, approx. 11X7.5 cm to approx. 9X14 cm. Condition varies, some items in fair condition and others in good condition.
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography
Maps, Travels in Palestine, Photography