Germany: "Feather Jew" medal in pewter, c. 1670-1710; by Christian Wermuth; 41.5mm, 21.95g. Obv.: hunched-over Jew with feathers in his hat and sack on back bearing the words "VITIA PROPRIA" ("His Own Faults"); Ger. leg. "ICH TRAGE DIE FEDERN DAS JEDERMANN SCHAUT" / "EIN ANDER TRAGET SIE DER ES NICHT TRAUT" ("I wear the feathers which everyone can see, another wears them as a decoy") & "IE DU FEDER IUDE" / "NOSCE TE IPSUM...
Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5
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Historama Historama Autumn Mail Auction #5
Our new mail auction opens 1 Oct. and runs until 20:00 Israel-time on Wed. Oct. 25th. The sale features a nicely developed and balanced selection of 661 lots of high quality items covering ancient to modern numismatics & exonumia; Judaica (religious books, Rabbinic letters and signatures, Hassidic items, medallic items and ephemera) and Judaic tokens & medals; Israeliana; Jewish, Israeli & Arabian militaria and philately. There are 661 single-item and multiple-item lots, something for every taste and interest. More information is available here.
The philatelic offering is our best yet, highlighted by an extraordinary assembly of postal history documenting the Arab-Israeli conflict (1947 to present); WWII postal links w/Palestine; ‘Baghdad overland mail’; 1948-era mail incl. Israeli interim-period, emergency + early foreign postal links, besieged towns, early postage dues & mail of Arab armies in Palestine; Mandate & Israeli postal history; Mandate cachets & postal markings; Red Cross & POW mail; censored mail; British WWI EEF mail from Egypt; rare Jerusalem postmarks; Jewish/Zionist stamps; Jewish Brigade & displaced persons mail.
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Lot #50034LA - Numismatics: Anti-Semitic medals
Germany: Kornjude jeton, 1772, by Johann Christian Reich; in pewter; 30mm, 6.75g; obv: Jewish grain peddler to right, open jaws of allegator & leg. "Korn Iude Ver Zwei Fel. Und Geh Zum" ("The Corn Jew Branches out and Goes Forth") and "Theure Zeit 1772" ("Expensive Times 1772"); rev: horizontal grain sifter & leg. "Furchte Gott" ("Fear G-d") + "Wer Korn Innehelt dem Fluchen Die Leute Aber Seegen Komt Uber den der is...
Lot #50035LA - Numismatics: Anti-Semitic medals
Germany: Kornjude jeton, 1772, by Johann Christian Reich; in pewter; 30mm, 7.25g; obv: Jewish grain peddler to right, open jaws of allegator & leg. "Korn Iude Ver Zwei Fel. Und Geh Zum" ("The Corn Jew Branches out and Goes Forth") and "Theure Zeit 1772" ("Expensive Times 1772"); rev: horizontal grain sifter & leg. "Furchte Gott" ("Fear G-d") + "Wer Korn Innehelt dem Fluchen Die Leute Aber Seegen Komt Uber den der is...
Lot #50036LA - Numismatics: Anti-Semitic medals
Germany: Kornjudenmedaille "Corn Jew" medal, 1694-1695 - rare variant in lead; by Christian Wermuth; 37.5mm, 25.75g: obv: peasant's house w/stork nest on top, left of hanging Jew in tree w/Devil on rope & long corn stalks in field on right + leg. "Du Korn Iude." ("You Corn Jew") above & "Wolfeile Zeit" ("Cheap Times") | "1695." below. Rev: walking Jew facing right w/Devil sitting on his grain sack +...
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