Large Collection of Items - First and Second "Maccabia" / "Maccabi"

Opening: $4,000
Sold for: $5,000
Including buyer's premium
46 items related to the first and second "Maccabia" competitions (1932 and 1935) which were held in Palestine, as well as to other "Maccabi" sports competitions in Palestine and abroad. Tel-Aviv and other places, late 1920s-30s.
The collection includes:
32 postcards, photographs and Real Photo postcards. Among the items: · A postcard with a photograph of the first "Maccabia" opening ceremony (1932). · Real Photo postcard depicting a high jump competition in the first "Maccabia" and other postcards with photographs from the first "Maccabia". · Two postcards on behalf of JNF (with photographs by Zoltan Kluger) printed for the second "Maccabia". · Official postcard of the second "Maccabia" designed by Franz Kraus. · Sixteen Real Photo postcards from the second "Maccabia" (1935): opening ceremony, the sports field, a motorcycle spectacle, sportsmen from different countries marching on the field.· Other items.
14 printed items and pins. Among them: · circular letters no. 1, no. 18 and no. 20 of "Maccabia" News - an information leaflet published towards and during the first "Maccabia". · "Why we do not participate in the Maccabia", a manifest on behalf of "HaPoel Center" explaining the reasons why their groups do not participate in the first "Maccabia". · "Maccabia 1932" - a booklet with short essays and information about the "Maccabia". · An appeal to women in Tel-Aviv to host in their homes guests who came for the first "Maccabia". · Participant card - the First "Maccabia". · Participant card - the Second "Maccabia". · Entrance ticket to the Second Maccabia closing ceremony. · Silver pin of the second "Maccabia". · More items.
Size and condition vary.