Auction 56 - Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

"Zel Korati" - Poster Designed By Otte Wallish

Opening: $600
Sold for: $1,063
Including buyer's premium
Advertising poster of the "Zel Korati" company - "The first Palestine saving and building corporation ltd.". Linol: Gilboa. "Hotza'at Eretz-Israel" Press Ltd., Tel Aviv, [second half of the 1930s]. Design: Otte Wallish. Signed in the plate: "MW" [atelier Machner-Wallish], "Wallish". Hebrew and some English.
Photographs of buildings in various cities in Palestine (photographs by Yitzhak Kalter), surmounted by the inscription, in Hebrew: "We have distributed 60,000 Palestinian pounds as building loans… 200 families have acquired homes".
92.5X62.5 cm. Good condition. Creases and folding marks. Some minor tears. The entire poster is mounted on thin acid-free paper.
Provenance: Collection of Dr. Simon Cohen.
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