Online Auction 31 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Part I
Wood and Stone Box – Cyprus Detention Camps, 1948
Opening: $300
Unsold
A wooden box with chiseled stone inlay, from the detention camps in Cyprus. Cyprus, 1948.
An octagonal wooden box; inlaid with stone plaques decorated with a pattern of barbed wire. The hinged lid of the box is inlaid with an octagonal plaque with a relief of a sailboat and the Hebrew inscriptions "Cyprus" and "5708" [1948].
Diameter: 16 cm. Height: 6 cm. Fractures, chipping and minor blemishes to the stone plaques and the wooden box. One of the plaques is broken and half of it is missing. Part of the inner lining of the box is missing. The box is affixed to a wooden base.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
An octagonal wooden box; inlaid with stone plaques decorated with a pattern of barbed wire. The hinged lid of the box is inlaid with an octagonal plaque with a relief of a sailboat and the Hebrew inscriptions "Cyprus" and "5708" [1948].
Diameter: 16 cm. Height: 6 cm. Fractures, chipping and minor blemishes to the stone plaques and the wooden box. One of the plaques is broken and half of it is missing. Part of the inner lining of the box is missing. The box is affixed to a wooden base.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Jewish Underground Movements, Jewish Immigration, British Detention Camps in Cyprus
Ottoman and Mandatory Palestine, Jewish Underground Movements, Jewish Immigration, British Detention Camps in Cyprus