19 postcards and an album with pictures and pressed flowers, commemorating the British conquest of Jerusalem in 1917. [Ca. late 1910s or early 1920s].
• 19 postcards published by N. de Simini – General Allenby entering Jaffa Gate, General Allenby reading of the Proclamation of Martial Law in Jerusalem, and other pictures (some on more than one postcard).
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes. Traces of paper and adhesive and abrasions to verso of some postcards.
• Album Souvenir, Entrance of the British and allied troops in Jerusalem. Ten pictures, with pressed flowers on verso (the last leaf serves as back cover – without pressed flowers).
[10] f. + printed front cover, approx. 14X9 cm. Good-fair condition. Stains. Minor blemishes to pressed flowers (some loss). Minor tears to front cover and tear along spine. Margins trimmed (with minor damage to text and pictures).
Provenance: Estate of Nechemia Bedarshi.