Three Extremely Rare Simchat Torah Flags - the 1940's - the Illustrator David Gilboa - Hand-Drawn (!) Sketch and ...

Three Extremely Rare Simchat Torah Flags - the 1940's - the Illustrator David Gilboa - Hand-Drawn (!) Sketch and Two Additional Flags
A. Sketch for a flag of Simchat Torah, hand-drawn (!) by David Gilboa.
The sketch depicts children dancing in a circle around a Torah scroll with flags of Israel in their hands.
Above this sketch, three illustrations of national sites in Israel. At the center an illustration of the Tower of David ; on the left and right, illustrations of the settlement of the country (pay attention to the water tower and houses on the left).
The flag was drawn after the establishment of the State, 1948-1949.
Extremely rare!

B. Flag for Simchat Torah drawn by David Gilboa immediately after the establishment of the State.1948-1949.
At the center of the flag, children dancing in a circle around a Torah scroll with flags of Israel in their hands.
Illustrations of holy places alongside places of national importance: the Tomb of Rachel, the Western Wall, the Hebrew University in on Mount Scopus, and the Knesset in Tel Aviv (After the establishment of the State, the Knesset resided for nine months in the Opera House close to the beach of Tel Aviv).
This flag by David Gilboa expresses the spirit of those first days of the State: to the traditional Torah scroll are added national sites and flags of Israel.
Rare!

C. Flag with moveable figures. The Land of Israel, the British Mandate.
A flag for Simchat Torah printed on double Bristol board with a small Bristol board handle. Moving the handle causes the figures on the flag to move.
Among the figures, a reader of the Torah scroll who can move away from the scroll.

Additional bibliography:
"Ha'Dgalim shel Simchat Torah min Ha'Omanut Ha'Yehudit Ha'Amamit La'Tarbut Ha'Ivrit Ha'Yisraelit". Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv 2012.
Flag B: ibid. pp. 122, pp. 150.
Flag C: ibid. pp. 116, pp. 148.
The sketch (A) does not appear there and we have not found it in other places as well. We do not know whether a flag was eventually made from the sketch and if such a flag survived.

A note regarding the date of the flags:
We tend to date Flag B to 1949 since the illustration depicts the Knesset in the Opera House in Tel Aviv. In the above catalog, it is dated to the beginning of the 1950's. one way or the other, this well-known flag manifests the joy over the establishment of the State.
Regarding flag C, the above catalog dates it also to the beginning of the 1950's, similar to flag B. We, however, assume that it is earlier since the inscription "Eretz Israel" appears on it. Therefore we think it was printed a short while before the establishment of the State or at the most – due to the time it takes to print – immediately after its establishment and not at the beginning of the 1950's.
Condition: Very Good.