Britain: lot x4 Isaac Earlysman Sparrow copper farthing tokens: 1) obv: "Ascended at Oxford | June 23 1823" & hot-air balloon/ "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" & left portrait, milled rim, in F-VF, Batty-401O; 2) "Ironmonger Bishopsgate London" & hot-air balloon/ "Isaac Earlysman 1*8 Sparrow 2*5" & left portrait, milled rim, in F; 3) "Sparrow Nail Merchant • London" & hot-air balloon/ "Sparrow's Leather...
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 #50089LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Britain: lot of 8 denominated tokens from J. Salmon & Son Ltd. business of London (presumably a Jewish merchant); the tokens are in Shillings and Pence including 2 versions of the 6 Pence token. The firm was in the crockery business and appears to have had its 'heyday' in the 1920's and 1930's; it entered financial problems in the late 30's, entered the process of liquidation in 1941, was bought by Timothy Whites &...
Lot #50090LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Lot x8 British Jewish merchant/business tokens, c. late 18th-19th Cent. 1) New Houses of Parliament/Queen Victoria bronze token by Hyam Hyams of London (goldsmith, watch/clock maker, money changer), designed by Allen & Moore, 1847; 2) Louis Silberberg (tobacconist) 'Habana Cigar Company, 104 Cheapside'/ left-facing portrait tin token, 1866 (bent planchet); 3) Lewis Levy - Borough...
Lot #50091LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Lot 5x European/Jewish merchant & business tokens, c. early 20th Cent.: 1) Germany: Rudolph Hertzog (manufacturer) of Berlin decagonal brass token; 2) Italy Michelangelo Jesurum & Co. (lace-maker) encased 1 Centisimo token, 1904; 3) Germany: Firma Valentin Manheimer (confectionary) 75th anniversary copper token, 1914, by Ludwig Ostermann (Forrer listed v4 p.335)...
Lot #50092LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Lot 17x German & Austrian (1pc) Jewish merchant/business tokens, c. early 20th Cent.: 2x Hermann Tietz of Berlin - 1pf Wertmarke in silvered zinc? + brass 5pf [wertmark]; Ludwig Lowe of Berlin 1 pf token for drink or tea, silvered zinc(?); F. Rosenfeld of Hernals Hauptstraße 49 Vienna 'Geschäfts-Marke' business token in heavy tin; G. V. Lassalle lyre/'...
Lot #50093LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Israel: lot x11 business/machine tokens, circa. 1960s-'70s, includes "Yavnir", "HaMarva", the 'Central Chicken-Coop Depot', "Copimat" (x2), "Cellmatic", "Tnuva" milk, "Shitta Automatim", "Medimat" (x2).
Lot #50094LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Great Britain(?): uniface Jewish(?) merchant token bearing value of "1" and name "LEVY" below; size: 19.5mm; weight: 2.85g. Circa. mid-late 19th Century.
Lot #50095LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Palestine(?): bronze token with incused Hebrew legend "Y. Zagman" with apparent value of '1' stamped below, circa mid-late 19th Century; size: 35mm; weight: 21.2g. Probably a business token; presumed to be from Palestine as all in Hebrew.
Lot #50096LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Romania(?): undocumented bronze token with large letter "K." on obverse & Star of David device on reverse. Probably a Romanian Jewish business token, similar to those covered by Schaffer - but unlisted in his catalogue; 2.1g, 20.25mm. Circa. early 20th Century.
Lot #50097LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Germany (Poland) > Posen: 15 Wert-Mark octagonal zinc business token of the watthour-meter factory business founded by Jewish electrical-engineer Prof. Dr. Hermann Aron (1845-1913), who invented first accurate watt-hour meter; c. 1917; 21.75x21.75mm, 1.95g. His business included factories in London, Paris & Vienna; son Manfred assumed management of business, and w/growing anti-Semitism, in 1929,...
Lot #50098LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Israel: lot x7 bakelite ship cafeteria tokens from Sommerfin and Zim lines, circa. 1960s.
Lot #50099LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
"Totzeret Ha'aretz" (Produce of the Land) initiative pin c. 1938-39; not maker-marked; 9x26.75mm, 0.3g. Part of the 'Yishuv' (Jewish community in Palestine) drive to encourage purchase of locally-made Jewish produce during the time of the Arab Revolt.
Lot #50100LA - Numismatics > Merchant & Business tokens
Syria(?)/Ottoman Empire: brass business token bearing the Arab legend "Atnah | Mr. Sobhy Basha Factory"; size: 30mm; weight: 9.45g. Atnah is presumed to be a location; a village of al-Atnah exists in the Damascus region of Syria.
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