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Oct 30, 2017
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LOT 130:
Large Variegated Collection of Methods of Payment – Jerusalem, Safed and Europe – the 19th Century and Onwards
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Start price:
$
700
Estimated price:
$1,000 - $2,000
Auction house commission:
20%
VAT: On commission only
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Variegated collection of method of payments and food coupons. The paper items are printed and the details were filled in by hand. These items are extremely rare and have never been seen in auctions!
A. Printed note given on behalf of a "Kupat Orchim" of an unknown community [Europe?]. 1835. The details were filled in by hand.
B. "I have received charity … by means of the Rebbe … Chaim [Hager] President and administrator of the Holy Land, his light shines in the community of Ottynia". Safed, 1910. Interesting handwritten details.
C. A Coupon for receiving Matzah which was printed in Safed and given to a student of the Vizhnitz Kollel of Safed by Rabbi Aharon Ehrlich on behalf of the Hilfascomission Company (a charity fund) of Wein (Vienna). 1916. Printed stamps of three of the activists of Jerusalem and a handwritten signature. On the reverse side of the coupon a stamp: "Aharon Katz Ehrlich". (During World War I, the Hilfascomission Company of Vienna raised funds for Austro-Hungarian Kollelim, including the Kollel of Vizhnitz, Kosov and Bukowina).
D. Printed bill with handwritten details and signatures. On behalf of the Siebenburgen and Silady Kollel as a commitment to pay its debt to Rabbi Yisrael Ya'akov Stein, one of the rabbis of Jerusalem. Tisheri 1914. Signatures and inscriptions. On the reverse side of the bill, a printed note was glued about a compromise reached between the Kollel and Rabbi Stein, from 1927. The details were filled in by hand.
E. A Coupon for receiving Matzah [Germany?], 1918. German. Stamp of Sigmund Eisner.
F. Coupon of behalf of "The Federation of the Jews of Russia for Mutual Aid in Constantinople". 1923.
G. Coupon for a donation, "From the bowl of the Eve of Yom Kippur at the Beit Midrash…" Odessa, 1898. Printed in Russian, the other handwritten details are in Hebrew. The money was raised for the settlers of the Land of Israel and Syria!
Condition: Good. Typical flaws. Restorations.
