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Lot 749 Collection of Pins – Betar

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $250
Sold for: $313
Including buyer's premium
12 pins of Betar movement, some enamel plated, mostly for conventions in Israel and in Poland. Ca. 1930s-1970s.
• A pin designed as a shield from "Betar convention, Haifa 1933". • A pin in the shape of a shield with the legend "World Convention B" (Betar congress in Krakow,1935). • A pin designed as a shield from "Betar convention, Pesach 1935". • A pin designed as a shield with Betar emblem. The emblem is surmounted by a wall of a city, on the sides is a chain and an olive wood leaf and on the bottom is the legend "25". It is possible that this pin is from the Independence War.• Three pins with the emblem of the "Betariada"– Menorah and a globe. • "Betariada" pin from 1973, commemorating 50 years to the foundation of Betar. • Three pins from the "World Betar Convention" in the years 1954-1966. • Pin commemorating 50 years to the foundation of Betar in Palestine and the tenth anniversary of the liberation of Jerusalem.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 750 Two Pins – Jewish Ghetto Police / Jewish Police in Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $200
Unsold
1. Cap badge of the Jewish Ghetto Police. [Poland? 1940s].
Hexagonal pin, partly colored in blue. In the center appears a Star of David and at the margins appears the name of the unit in German and in Polish – "Ordnungsdienst, Sluzba porzadkow".
The Jewish Ghetto Police were units of auxiliary-police founded by Nazi order in Ghettoes and certain settlements in German occupied zones during World War II.
30X44 mm.
2. Pin of the Jewish Police in Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp. [ca. 1945].
A pin in the shape of a shied, with a Star of David on a blue-white background. On top and bottom margins appears the legend: "D.P. Police, Landsberg/L".
Approx. 30X44 mm.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 751 Collection of Pins – Jewish Communities Destroyed during the Holocaust and Organizations Commemorating the Holocaust

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $100
Sold for: $138
Including buyer's premium
Approximately 55 pins, most of them commemorating Jewish communities that were destroyed during the Holocaust and of various memorial organizations. Israel and other locations, second half of the 20th century.
The collection contains: • Yad Vashem pins – a flame with the legend "And to them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name [yad va-shem]... that shall not be cut off." • Pins from the Simon Wiesenthal Center. • Pins of Jewish communities in Europe. • Pins commemorating those murdered in the Buchenwald concentration camp. • Two pins marking the fiftieth anniversary of the massacre at Babi Yar. • A pin bearing a Star of David and the legend "Halt Hitler" – evidently created by a Jewish organization in North America during World War II. • And more.
A total of approx. 55 pins (some appear in several copies). Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 752 Collection of Pins, Badges and Ranks – Anders' Army in Palestine

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $150
Unsold
25 pins, medals and ranks, most are of the Polish Army, World War II period.
Among the items: • A silver pendant on which appear the Polish eagle and the legend "Jerusalem". Marked on the back "Made in Palestine". • Pin with the Polish eagle and the legend: "S.P. Jerozolima". • Pin of the Polish Red Cross. • Pin of a boy- scouts organization in Poland. • Emblem of "Polish Independent Carpathian Rifle Brigade" with the Polish eagle, two swords, and the legend "Tubruk". • More.
Some items appear in multiple copies. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 753 Collection of Pins – Palestine Regiment and Units of the British Army in Palestine – World War II

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $200
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Seven pins of the Palestine Regiment and units of the British army that operated in Palestine during World War II.
• Pin of the Palestine Regiment. • "Buffs Palestinian"– Royal East Kent Regiment (the Buffs). • E.E. Palestinian" pin of the Corps of Royal Engineers. • "R.A. Palestinian" pin of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Pin with the emblem of the Royal Artillery Regiment on the background of blue-white stripes. • Pin with the legend "Palestine". • Pin with the emblem of the Palestine Regiment, no embossing.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 754 Nine Pins – Jewish Brigade, Palmach and Etzioni Brigade

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $200
Unsold
Nine pins, some are miniature, of the Jewish Brigade, Palmach, and Etzioni Brigade. Palestine, 1940s.
1-2. Two small pins – Jewish Brigade – Star of David on blue-white stripes.
3-6. Four pins with Palmach emblem – two stalks of wheat and a sword. Two are miniature pins.
7-9. Three pins of Etzioni Brigade. Two are miniature.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 755 Two Pins – Palmach – War of Independence

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $200
Sold for: $450
Including buyer's premium
1. Pin of guardians of convoys to Jerusalem in the War on Independence – an armored vehicle, surmounted by a sword and an olive tree branch with wings on the sides. 18X52 mm.
2. Palmach pin – two stalks of wheat and a sword. 12X20 mm.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 756 Collection of Pins – Haganah and Palmach

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $200
Unsold
Four pins – Haganah and Palmach.
• Palmach pin. • Etzioni Brigade pin (emblem of the Haganah on the background of a wall and the legend "Jerusalem"). • Pin – "Haganah Member Petach Tikva" (emblem of the Haganah and a Menorah on the background of a Star of David). • Pin with the Haganah emblem on the background of a shield, and the legend: "Jerusalem".
Enclosed: three pins of Palmach fighters' reunions in the years 1963-1968.
Total of 7 items. Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 757 Six Pins – Haganah – Pins of "Alexandroni" Brigade and more Pins

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $200
Sold for: $525
Including buyer's premium
Six pins of Haganah forces. Tel-Aviv, Haifa, Petach Tikva and other locations in Palestine.
• Pins of "Haganah Member Tel-Aviv", "Haganah Member Petach Tikva", "Haganah Haifa". • Three pins of "Alexandroni"Brigade forces: "Haganah HaShomron"a nd "Gad District".
On each of the pins appears a variation of the "Haganah "emblem". Two of the pins are numbered on the back.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 758 Seven Pins – The Haganah and the Palmah / Mishmar Ha-Am

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $150
Sold for: $500
Including buyer's premium
Seven pins – the Haganah, the Palmah, and Mishmar ha-Am
• Pins of the Haganah in Afula, Petah Tikva, and Jerusalem. • Palmah pin – two sheaves of wheat and a sword. • Pin of Mishmar ha-Am in Jerusalem. • Pin marking Haganah Day, Lag ba-Omer 1966. The text "Member of the Haganah, Tel Aviv" appears at the center of the pin. • Pin commemorating the soldiers of the 133rd Battalion of the Alexandroni Brigade.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 759 Nine Pins – the Haganah and the Palmah / Mishmar ha-Am

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $200
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Nine pins – the Haganah, the Palmah, and Mishmar ha-Am.
• Pins containing the Palmah symbol – two sheaves of wheat and a sword (with slight differences in the design of the sword and the sheaves. One pin has a Star of David between the sheaves). • "Haganah Member" pins from Tel Aviv and Petah Tikva. • Pin of Mishmar ha-Am in Jerusalem.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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Lot 760 Seven Pins – "Mishmar HaAm"in Jerusalem / Pins Commemorating Forces and Battle- Fields in the area of Jerusalem during the Independence War

Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture January 23, 2019
Opening: $100
Sold for: $550
Including buyer's premium
Seven pins, including pins from the Independence War period, and pins commemorating forces and battle-fields in the area of Jerusalem during the war. Ca. 1948-1968.
• A pin of "Mishmar HaAm" in Jerusalem with figures of soldiers on the background of a Star of David and the Tower of David. • A pin with Palmach emblem – two stalks of wheat and a sword. • A pin in the shape of a shield on which appear the Old City, emblem of the "Haganah" and the legend "Old City Fighters 1948". • A pin in the shape of a shield on which appear the Old City, emblem of the "Haganah" and the legend "Gush Etzion Fighters 1948-1967". • A pin in the shape of a shield on which appear the Tower of David, emblem of Communications force and the legend "Communications Jerusalem". • A "Defenders of Mount Scopus 1948, Tamuz 1967" pin. • A pin with the legend "Minyan Lochamei Yerushalaim" within a wall, surmounted by a Star of David.
Size and condition vary.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
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