Auction 1 Rare and Prestigious Items
By King David Auctions
Mar 19, 2018
22 Ha'Nassi Ha'Shishi st., Jerusalem, Israel

Historical Documents, Rare Books, Rabbis Letters, Art and Banknotes

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LOT 131:

Collection of Rare Payment Methods – the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem – Signatures of the Rabbis of Jerusalem

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Collection of Rare Payment Methods – the Old Yishuv of Jerusalem – Signatures of the Rabbis of Jerusalem
A note printed on behalf of "Beit Ha'Va'ad Ha'Klali", "To the Hamburger merchants to give at the expense of Ha'Va'ad Ha'Klali". The note was given to the Rebbe ofLelov Rabbi David Zvi Shlomo Biderman (his name was filled in by hand!). signayures of Rabbi Ziskind Shachor and Rabbi Elimelech Perlman, the managers of Ha'Va'ad Ha'Klali. (The 1900's). 11x7.5 cm. Condition: Good.
A printed note witg details filled in by hand. Given to Rabbi Ya'akov Sharhazan. Signature of Rabbi Abba Ya'akov Sandrowitz, Av Beit Din of Pirusla. After his immigration to the Land of Israel, he served as a Dayan. Died in 1905. Signature of the Dayan Rabbi Aryeh Leib Herschler. 8x7cm.
Thick yicket with the following printed inscription:"Leil Shabbat Kodesh. Soup kitchen … founded by the rabbis … of Amsterdam … a dish of meat at the price of one tenner". Jerusalem (The 1910's). extremely rare! The text is printed in green. 8x5cm. condition: Good.
Four printed notes (have not been cut in the printing process) – methods of payment. Printed by Rabbi Pinchas Hamburger of Jerusalem "To give to the deliverer of this note at the expense of the undersigned food for forty Perutot/Pinchas Hamburger". The note is framed with the word "forty" written over and over.
Rabbi Pinchas Hamburger, the brother of Rabbi Neta Zvi Hamburger, was a well-known money changer in Jerusalem. He and his brother actually opened in 1895 one of the first two banks of Jerusalem. According to history books "Financially, all of Jerusalem was in the hands of the Hamburger brothers. All the money for the institutions of Jerusalem would reach the Hamburger brothers and they would pay the institutions little by little". Yitzchak Shiryon, in his memoire, describes their bank: "The bank was in small shop in the Old City of Jerusalem and its furniture: an old metal money box, a table and several simple benches. The basic fortune of the bank was small, but since its owners were religious and honest people and involved with the people around them, they soon earned the trust of the Torah and charity institutions and of the various Kollelim of Jerusalem and became their agents".
Rabbi Pinchas had printed several different notes, all on cardboard. These served as methods of payment. People gave Rabbi Pinchas coins and in exchange received these notes.
Before us is a leaf of such notes which has been very well preserved. Condition: Fair-Good. Stains and tears.

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