Esther Scroll. [Italy, 19th cent.]
Parchment scroll, rolled on a wooden handle. Italian-Sephardic script (Vellish). Cut and illuminated with floral decorations in colorful ink. Wide columns, bordered by frames throughout the scroll. The scroll ends with a large and colorful illustration of flowers.
Parchment height: 21 cm. About 23 lines in a column. Fair condition. Tears, wear and stains. Color and letters are faded. Some letters are erased. Wood handle broken in two places.

Esther scroll, scrolled on a carved wooden handle. Sephardic Vellish script, 20th century.
Wooden handle, ink on parchment.
The scroll is written on brownish parchment in fine script with serifs in floral designs on top of several letters. An architectural decoration and holes to the wood handle.
Height of parchment: 15.5 cm. Small breakage to wood decoration. Several scribbles in ink on the upper part of the handle. The first sheet (with no text) is torn, stain.

Esther Scroll. Hassidic-HaAri script. [Russia-Poland, 19th/20th cent.]
Height of parchment: 31 cm. 42 lines per page. Good-fair condition. Stains. Tear to first sheet (no text omission).

Esther Scroll. [Jerusalem, 20th cent.]
A particularly large Esther Scroll. Written in only eight columns, 50 lines per column. Jerusalemite "Beit Yosef" script. "HaMelech" Scroll [Most leaves open with "HaMelech"]. In a matching case, made of tin, with a lid attached with a hinge. On the lid – a silver plaque with an engraved inscription of the owner: "Avraham Ya'akov Marcus". On top of the lid appears an engraving: "Bikur Cholim Hospital". Rabbi Ya'akov Avraham Marcus, a foremost member of a group of righteous in "Etz Haim" Yeshiva, rabbi of Rabbi Shmuel Huminer and of Rabbi Moshe Baruch Levine. He served as rabbi of Bikur Cholim Hospital for thirty years until his demise this past year.
Height of parchment: 56 cm. Fair condition. Wear and spots. Faded letters. Tin case 62 cm, fair condition.