Germany > Saxe-Gotha: lot x10 medals of Christian Wermuth & studio, portaits of Roman & Byzantine emperors w/brief biographies (reverse), struck in tin/ white metal, c.1694-1715; all on thick planchets; sizes bet. 31-32mm; weights: 10.6 - 17.2g; some w/rim leg. or numbers etched, or ink inventory marks; most VF-EF, one BU. Includes: Antoninus Pius, Antoninus, Severus Alexander, Magnus, Hadrian, Titus, Volusian....
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 #50052LA - Numismatics > Biblical & Religious themes
Italy: bronze medal fashioned after 16th C. Venetian Jesus medals, with standard 5-line Hebrew leg. on rev (eg. Hill p.50) משיח | מלך באבש | לום ואדמא | רם עשוי | חי; on obv. in place of portrait of Jesus, left-facing head possibly of Holy Roman emperor Charles V - this medal/design unlisted in Hill; 20.75g, 34mm. Appears to be letter "P" below portrait. Medallist may be Giovanni del Cavino,...
Lot #50053LA - Numismatics > Biblical & Religious themes
Christian Kabbalist amulet, post 1518; bronze; size: 39mm; weight: 16.1g. Obverse bears pentagon with various names of Jesus ("Yeshu"); reverse bears square with four Angels' names around and 12 permutations of G-d's name (Tetragrammaton) within. Reference: Schrire’s Hebrew Magic Amulets #42.
Lot #50054LA - Numismatics > Biblical & Religious themes
Italy: Jesus medal in copper, c. 16th C.; not maker-marked; size: 28.5mm; weight: 10.75g. Obv.: left facing Christ, with Hebrew initial "Alef" (for 'Adoneinu' - 'Our Lord') & "Yeshu" ('Jesus') on either side. Rev.: 5-line Heb. legend (w/incorrect letters) as per Hill p.50 ex. 2b: משיח | מלך באבש | לום ואדמא | רם עשוי | חי, with 'Mashiach' spelled with 'Yud' under the letter 'Khet'. Portrait of Christ said to be of...
Lot #50055LA - Numismatics > Biblical & Religious themes
US/Canada: large oval bronze medal with legend "Christ in You | The Hope of Glory" around outer ring w/"Holy is His Name" within above Star of David with Hebrew word for G-d within; rev: legend "Father Glorify Thy Name | H.G.I. Founded June 23, 1887" & crucifix design with Hebrew words "King of the Jews | Christ the Christian"; 23.85g, 32 x 45mm. Rarely encountered tallion, usually described as a "...
Lot #50056LA - Numismatics > Biblical & Religious themes
US/Canada: small oval bronze medal with legend "Christ in You | The Hope of Glory" around outer ring w/"Holy is His Name" within above Star of David with Hebrew word for G-d within; rev: legend "Father Glorify Thy Name | H.G.I. Founded June 23, 1887" & crucifix design with Hebrew words "King of the Jews | Christ the Christian"; 9.25g, 20 x 35mm. This is a smaller version of the [rarely encountered] larger sized tallion...
Lot #50057LA - Numismatics > Biblical & Religious themes
Middle Eastern artwork hammered out on octagonal thin sheet of silver(?) depicting rose with long stalk & petals + a bird on either side, c. early 20th Century; 5.3g, 47 x 65mm. Evocative of "Song of Songs".
Lot #50058LA - Exonumia > Communist-related
USSR: Josef Stalin 'publicity' screw-back pin, c.1930's-40's; 22mm, 6.9g. Silvered bronze left-facing head of Stalin on red enamel background; maker-marked Emal.F-Ka | Lenizo | L-G-R.
Lot #50059LA - Exonumia > Communist-related
USSR(?): Communist Party members/supporters lapel-pin, c. 1940's-50's; 16.75 x 53.5mm, 1.65g.
Lot #50060LA - Exonumia > Communist-related
USSR: Vladimir Lenin nostalgia pin, c. 1970's-80's; 15.5 x 42mm, 0.8g. Maker-marked on back by Soviet manufacturer.
Lot #50061LA - Exonumia > Communist-related
China(?): Mao Tse-tung nostalgia pin, c. 1970's; 19.5mm, 3.55g.
Lot #50062LA - Exonumia > Communist-related
USSR: Sputnik-1 launch metal & enamel commemorative pin, 1957; 13 x 34.5mm, 1.75g. Not maker marked. Blue & white background with dove circling globe, "CCCP" & date of launch "4 X 57". This was the first satellite ever launched and ushered in the period of the 'space race' during the Cold War.
Lot #50063LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
Argentina: Santa Isabel Jewish Colony silver jubilee commemoration brass token, 1933; not maker-marked; 34.5mm, 13.3g. Obv.: 7-line leg. "Silver Anniversary of the Village and Colony of Santa Ysabel FCP/Central Pacific Railroad(?) 9 February 1933". Rev.: triangle w/ industry, agriculture & learning devices; leg."Peace, Culture, Progress". Founded 1908 by Jewish Colonization Association (supported Jewish...
Lot #50064LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
China: Harbin "Jewish Music-Drama Society" copper token (ND), c. 1910s-1920's; no marker marks; 27mm, 8.05g. Obv.: Russian leg. "Jew[ish] Mus[ical]-Dramat[ic] Society Harbin", w/ 2 Chinese chars. in center. Rev.: crowned figure w/ lyre; Russian leg. "Czar [King] David" - possibly the society's name. Russian lettering on rev. written right-to-left like Hebrew. In AU w/luster & toning. Jews turned Harbin into "Paris of...
Lot #50065LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
Russia/Ukraine: Balta (Odessa region) Jewish community 3 Kopek bronze token, circa. 1880s; 1.45g, 18mm. Obv.: number "3"; Ukrainian leg. "контора коробочнаго сбора балта" ['office boxed collection of Balta']. Rev.: swan image. Jewish tokens from the Odessa region all bear image of swan & identified by phrase 'office box collection', a ref. to community levy imposed by the 'Kahal'. The Russian govt. required Kahal-im to...
Lot #50066LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
Ukraine: Shepetivka/ Shepetovka 1 Karbovanets Jewish community bronze token, c.1900; 2.7cm, 7.85g. Obv.: "1 Karb[ovanets]"; Ukr. leg. "Jewish Community Council of Shepetivka" ("ЕВРЕЙЬ ГРОМАД РАДА ШЕПЕТІВЬБКА"). Rev.: cluster of grapes; Heb. leg. "Ha Tzibur Ha Ivri Shel ha Iriya" ("The Hebrew Populace of the City Hall"; 'Iriya' may be mistake for 'Ayara' - 'small town'; many sp. mistakes). A Hassidic center in 18-19th Cent.;...
Lot #50067LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
Austria/Hungary: Mattersdorf (Mattersburg) Jewish community copper token, c. late 18th-early 19th Cent.; not maker-marked; 26.5mm, 4.75g. Same design on both sides: wheat(?) branch interlocked with olive/berry branch. Obv.: initials "IGM" ('Israelitische Gemeinde Matzelsdorf'). Rev.: Hebrew initials Kuf-Mem-Daled ("KMD"). All sources (quoting Neumann) call this a "slaughter token" & say Heb. letters mean...
Lot #50068LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
US: Federation of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of NYC "Luck Piece" charity token, 1926; in silvered bronze, by Whitehead & Hoag; size: 38.25mm; weight: 19.45g. Issued for organization's decade anniversary fundraiser; was honored by phone-call from President Coolidge in 1924.
Lot #50069LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
Palestine/Syria: Lot x2 charity tokens, c. 19th Cent. 1) token ex Aleppo (Halab), Syria, ND (circa. late 19th C.); leg. "BiTzdaka Tikonani" [Isaiah 54 v.14] ('In righteousness shalt thou be established'), + "101" (gematric reference to Angel Michael, associated w/charity) bet. words & letters "bet" + "kaf" ('Beit Knesset') on either side; 1.95cm, 0.25g. 2) Eretz Israel token w/4 Heb. letters on 2 rows, spelling "Tzdaka...
Lot #50070LA - Numismatics > Community & Charity tokens
Palestine/Russia?: bronze Rishon LeZion Jewish settlement token, c. late 19th C. (1889/92?); size: 28.5 x 34mm; weight: 7.7g. Obv.: orchard & fields of RLZ; Heb. date of est. "5642" (1882) in exergue & legend around (Yeshayahu, ch. 41); rev. twin windows: depicting prayers at Western Wall & seed sower & leg. (Psalms, 14). Possibly issued when local Great Synagogue inaugurated (1889) or when RLZ was 10 years...
Lot #50071LA - Numismatics > Institutions & Synagogues
Germany > Prussia > Breslau: Jewish Wilhelm School (Wilhelmschule) silver token, 1791; not maker-marked; 21mm, 2.25g. Commemorates foundation of Jewish Wilhelmschule of Breslau. Although school was supported by Prussian-Jewish aristocrat Lippmann Meyer, local insecurity over anti-Semitism led the community to pay homage instead to the Christian minister, Count Karl von Hoym (German legend: "Vom Grafen...
Lot #50072LA - Numismatics > Institutions & Synagogues
France > Bordeaux: Consistorial Synagogue of Bordeaux, 1810; by Jaley; in pewter; size: 35mm; weight: 23.55g. Commemoriates the founding of the Sephardic Jewish Synagogue in the city. Obv. leg. "Consistorial Synagogue of Bordeaux". Rev. leg. "Built in 1810 under the reign of Napoleon the Great". On obv. there are signs of an earlier strike on the planchet (about 15 degree angle leftward); on rev. some light scratchs on...
Lot #50073LA - Numismatics > Institutions & Synagogues
Germany > Hanover: uniface bronze medallion of Board of Jewish Community in Hannover, c. 1870-1880s; 44.5mm, 19.1g. Coat of arms of Hanover with lions on either side, and community's name written around: "Vorstand der Israelitischen Gemeinde zu Hannover". Probably affixed to an official object belonging to the Board; its est. date relates to time of growth in community: after emancipation of Jews of Hanover (1866), est. of...
Lot #50074LA - Numismatics > Institutions & Synagogues
Romania: Sephardic Jewish Communitee 200th Jubilee medal, 1931; struck in gilded bronze(?); 28.25 x 31.5mm, 10.45g. Obv.: Ten Commands & Menorah; Rom. leg. "Jubileul de Două Sute ani de la Întemeierea Comunităţii 1730-1930" ("Two Hundred Years Jubilee to the foundation of the Community 1730-1930"). Rev.: Star of David & "Shadday" ("G-d") + Heb. leg. "Jews of Sephardic Ethnicity Bucharest" & Rom. leg. "Comunitatea...
Lot #50075LA - Numismatics > Institutions & Synagogues
Netherlands: cast silver spoon commemorating 250th Anniversary of Portuguese -Jewish Synagogue, 1925; by E.L. Molenberg & Zoon (Groningen); 37.75 x 123mm, 25.55g. On finial 'eagle protecting brood' as per design on Synagogue; relief image of building on spoon base; leg. above "KKTT 5435" ='Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah 1675' (Sacred Assembly Students of the Torah, 1925) & below "Portug[ees] -Israel[itische] Synagoge...
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