Three badges inlaid with enamel. [Palestine, the first half of the 20th century].
1. A pin shaped as a lion holding a flagpole with a blue-and-white flag. An identical image appears in the "Gur Aryeh Yehuda" pin made by Shmuel Krechmer (see item 407).
2x2 cm. Good condition. Blemishes to the enamel.
2. A small badge with a star-of-David and an envelope. Signed: "Krechmer".
Approx. 1x2.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.
3. A pin made of two crossed swords in the center of which is a star-of-David with the Hebrew word "Zion" (Bezalel style).
1.5x3.5 cm. Good condition. Later welding on the back of the pin.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.

Six cap badges of Jewish guards and soldiers of various units of the British Army. England and Palestine, [1917-1948].
1. Cap badge of the Royal Fusiliers, to which the Jewish Battalions belonged during World War I.
2. Cap badge of a guard. In its center, a crown with the inscription "Ghaffir" around it.
3. Cap badge; in its center, the initials "T.A.S.C." ("Temporary Additional Security Constables"), and around them the Hebrew words "Protection and Security" with the British Crown above.
4-5. Two cap badges of the Palestine Regiment, an infantry regiment of the British army which was active during World War II and was composed of volunteers, residents of Mandatory Palestine (the Jewish Battalions of the Regiment later merged with the Hebrew Brigade). In the center, an olive branch and around it the legend "Palestine" in Hebrew, English and Arabic. On one of the badges, the Hebrew word for Palestine is misspelled.
6. A cap badge of the ATS, the auxiliary territorial service of the British Army. In its center, the letters "ATS" surrounded by a Laurel wreath and the British Crown above them.
3.5 to 5.5 cm. Good overall condition. Bends. Minor blemishes.
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection

Ten pins that were given to Jewish soldiers of the British Army (most of them late souvenir pins):
* Two identical pins with a star-of-David on blue and white background and the legend "Palestine" in Hebrew and English. * Two pins with a lion in a star-of-David. * A souvenir pin of the office of the Freemasons in Palestine for soldiers of the British Army (Jerusalem, 1941). * Pin of the Royal Engineering Corps, on its lower part a Hebrew legend – "Royal Engineers". * Pin marking a conference of the Drivers Units in World War II, 1953. * Pin marking a conference of veterans of the British Engineering Corps, with the legend "Conference 1954" (Hebrew). * Pin marking the 35th anniversary of the 745 Engineering Company (of the Royal Engineering Corps), 1977 – a star-of-David entwining the letters סו"ב. * Pin of the Association of Jewish ex-Service Men and Women.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: The Morton Leventhal Collection, New-York

Ten pins of the underground organization Etzel (Irgun Zeva'i Leumi).
Among the pins: * Pin with the Etzel emblem (Inscription "Rak Kach" with a hand holding a rifle on the background of Palestine on both banks of the Jordan River) and the legend "Division 25 in exile". * Pin with the emblem of Etzel on the background of two strips in blue and white * Round pin with the emblem of Etzel and the inscription "Rishone Etzel". * "Convention of Etzel soldiers, Jerusalem 1969" pin. * Other pins with the Etzel emblem (two of them are identical).
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.