Online Auction 018 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
Twenty Three Bank Checks – Anglo-Palestine Bank – Type Set of Checks Issued Prior to the Establishment of the State of Israel
Opening: $350
Sold for: $438
Including buyer's premium
Twenty three checks issued by "Anglo-Palestine Bank", from the founding of the bank until the establishment of the State of Israel. Tel-Aviv, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Tiberias, London and elsewhere. Early 20th century through the 1940s.
Among them: three checks from the first decade of the 20th century; check from 1920 hand-signed by Meir Dizengoff – order to transfer ten thousand Egyptian Piastres to the archaeologist Yosef Algavish; check on a special form of the "Jewish Agency" – transfer of one thousand Palestine Pounds to Ein Harod during the War of Independence (May 1948); two checks issued by the Jewish Colonial Trust (that managed the bank in its early days); checks from branches in "Tiberias", "Hadar-Carmel", "Hadarom Branch" and more branches; and more.
Most checks are filled-in by hand, with ink-stamps and postage stamps. Some are hand-signed on the back.
Size and condition vary. Good overall condition.
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