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 Scrips – the Sephardic Community of Palestine – Shops of the Shama Commercial Center ("Mamilla Center") – 1920s-1930s

Opening: $100
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
17 scrips for food products. Issued by the Sephardic community of Palestine. Jerusalem, [late 1920s or 1930s]. 1-5. Five "Kimcha DeFischa" ("flour for Passover") scrips (different; varying face values) – "Good for buying products for the holiday, at the shop of Yosef Atar Mordechai, the Shamaa commercial center". Issued by "The Beit Esther Fund of the Sephardic community of Palestine, in memory of the late Mrs. Esther Nachmias, founded in 1896". 6-17. Twelve scrips for various products (Matza – one ratl, rice – one ratl, sugar, one ounce of wine, one ounce of oil) at the shop of David Abu Alafia, the Shamaa commercial center, issued by the "'Yad LaAachim' association of the Sephardic community of Palestine, Jerusalem – founded in 1892". One scrip with inked stamp of the 'Yad LaAchim' association. Size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Stains, tears and open tears.
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