Auction 05
Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Dec 14, 2016
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Israel
37 King George st. Jerusalem
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LOT 492:
Two Olive Wood Items
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Sold for: $50
Start price:
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Auction house commission:
15%
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Two olive-wood items. [Israel, late 19th, early 20th century].
1. Album "Al Shoshanim: Miyerushalayim Lebaneha, Shirei Yedidut" (on Roses, from Jerusalem to its sons, songs of friendship). Biblical texts accompanied by pressed flowers from various places in Eretz Israel. Additional title page in German followed by a short text by Heinrich Heine. Bound in an Olive wood binding with a printed inscription "Yerushalem" (Hebrew) and "Jerusalem". Hebrew, English nd German. 15.5X11 cm. Fair condition. Stains. Worn spine. Handwritten dedication on first page.
2. Calling cards case. Bound in olive wood binding with inscription in ink "Yerushalem". 10.5X6.5 cm. Fair condition. Cracks and fractures to binding.
Provenance: Sassoon Family Collection.
