Auction 018
Online Auction – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture
By Kedem
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Jan 23, 2019
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LOT 495:
Four Press Photographs – "The Black Sabbath" / Search for Ammunition by the British Army – 1946
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Sold for: $500
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Four Press Photographs – "The Black Sabbath" / Search for Ammunition by the British Army – 1946
Four press photographs depicting British soldiers after the Black Sabbath and during searches for ammunition. Kibbutz Yagur and Givat Shmuel, July–November 1946.
1–3. Three photographs of soldiers and officers of the British army standing over weapons that were seized on Kibbutz Yagur and showing them to the media.
The Haganah’s main arms cache was hidden in Kibbutz Yagur in the north of Palestine. During the raid, which took place on June 29, 1946, in what became known as "The Black Sabbath," the British seized a large cache of rifles, sub-machine guns, mortars, grenades, and ammunition.
4. Photograph of British soldiers searching for explosives in the Givat Shaul neighborhood of Jerusalem on November 2, 1946. The search took place after two British army trucks and another truck, which belonged to an Arab, drove over a mine on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing two soldiers and wounding several soldiers and Arab residents.
Information notes for the press and stamps of news agencies on verso.
Three 20X25 cm photographs and one 10X20 cm photograph. Good overall condition. Minor blemishes. Fold marks in two photographs.
Provenance: Rimon Family Collection.
