Auction 7 Rare and special items
Apr 19, 2016 (Your local time)
Israel
 Harav Maimon 2, Jerusalem
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LOT 48:

Large Collection of Autographs - Fascinating Mosaic of Well-Known Figures

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Some of the autographs are on philatelist envelopes and interesting philately items and some are on letters, cards and other items.
The collection includes many signatures of prime-ministers and presidents:
A. Signature of the first prime-minister David Ben Gurion, by a festive stamp in honor of his 85th birthday.
B. Signature of prime-minister Levi Eshkol on the victory envelope "Honor and Glory to the IDF". The first day of the postmark of the Old City of Jerusalem after the Six-Day-War.
C. Signature of President Zalman Shazar.
D. Signature of President Efrayim Katzir.
E. Signature of prime-minister Yitzchak Rabin.
F. Signature of Presdient Yitzchak Navon on the Western Wall souvenir sheets issued by the Israel Postal Company in honor of the peace treaty with Egypt.
G. Signature of Presdient Chaim Herzog in Hebrew and English.
H. Signature of Ezer Weizmann, the future president, on the Western Wall souvenir sheets issued by the Israel Postal Company in honor of the peace treaty with Egypt.
I. Signature of prime-minister Yitzchak Shamir.
J. Signature of Presdient Reuben Rivlin on a beautiful postage stamp issued by the Jewish National Fund in his honor.
K. Signatures of almost-prime-ministers…: Yitzchak Herzog and Tzipi Livni.
The collection also includes the autographs of public Zionist figures including Kadish Luz, Shlomo Hillel, Binyamin Mintz, Abba Even and Dov Shilansky.
There are also important autographs of figures related to the defense of the country. Among them: Rachel Yana'it Ben Zvi, Geulah Cohen, Moshe Dayan and Uzi Narkis.
The collection also includes important autographs of literature, culture and art figures, who greatly affected their fields of interest. Among them: Moshe Shamir, Nachum Guttmann and Marc Chagall.
An important place in the collection is given to the mythological designers of the symbols of the renewed Jewish independence in the Land of Israel. These artists designed the postage stamps, banknotes and other symbols of Jewish sovereignty. Their works of art depict many Jewish and Zionist motifs and full identification with the Zionist ethos. Among them: the autograph of Otte Wallish on a stamp he designed and the autographs of the well-known designers: "ROLI" (G. Rothschild & Z. Lippmann), A. Adler, E. Weishoff, Tzila Menosi, H. Frank, Asaf Berg and Aharon Shevo.
Additional autographs of many public figures from many fields: Israeli Nobel Laureates, important science and academy figures, items related to the Holocaust, among them the autograph of the president of Poland on a souvenir page commemorating 50 years to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which was issued jointly by Israel and Poland.
All in all, about 140 autographs. Large, important and interesting collection.
Condition: Very Good.

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