Bidspirit auctions | Historama Auction Oct 15, 2020

Historama, Oct 15, 2020. 615 lots, estimates 10 - 450 $.

Historama -

This is a timed sale without auctioneer

The sale is displayed in this order: Israeliana & Zionism > Judaica > Militaria > Stamps > Postal History > Ancient Coins > Israeli coins > World coins > Judaic tokens and medals

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Lots in this catalog (615)

Lot 100001: Turn of the 20th Century Levantine color picture postcard of the Acropolis of Balbek (Lebanon): full front image — $20 - $50
Lot 100002: Turn of the 20th Century Holyland color picture postcard of the Garden of Gethsemane, — $20 - $50
Lot 100003: Turn of the 20th Century Holyland color picture postcard of the Virgin's Fountain, — $20 - $50
Lot 100004: Turn of the 20th Century Holyland color picture postcard of Nazareth (Palestine): full front image without caption; — $20 - $50
Lot 100005: Turn of the 20th Century Holyland color picture postcard of Bethany [al-Eizariya] (Ottoman Palestine): full front — $20 - $50
Lot 100006: Turn of the 20th Century Holyland color picture postcard of the Dead Sea (Palestine): full front image without caption; — $20 - $50
Lot 100007: Turn of the 20th Century Holyland color picture postcard of the Mount of Olives & Gethsemane in Jerusalem (Palestine): — $20 - $50
Lot 100008: Turn of the 20th Century Holyland color picture postcard of a Baptism place on the Jordan River (Palestine): full — $20 - $50
Lot 100009: Turn of the 20th Century Holyland color picture postcard of the Garden of Gethsemane, — $20 - $50
Lot 100010: Lebanese postcard of the Mosque of Omar in Jerusalem: unused & undated slightly color-enhances photo by Torossian, — $20 - $50
Lot 100011: Color picture postcard of Jerusalem, mailed locally in VIENNA & postmarked 22 Jan 1905; — $50 - $100
Lot 100012: Holyland color picture postcard of Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, by Christian Imberger of Jerusalem; — $50 - $100
Lot 100013: Holyland color picture postcard of the Aksa Mosque, by Christian Jmberger & Co of Jerusalem; — $50 - $100
Lot 100014: Zionist postcards: Hebrew-Bauhaus styled postcard of the Zionist-themed series by S. Adler of Haifa, — $20 - $50
Lot 100015: Eretz Israel-Palestina vintage 1920's era color picture postcard "Tel Aviv - Boy's School", — $20 - $50
Lot 100016: Eretz Israel-Palestina vintage 1920's era color picture postcard "The 'Makabi' awaiting Balfour near the Triumph Gate", — $20 - $50
Lot 100017: Postcard portrait of Zeev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky, from World War I, — $40 - $100
Lot 100018: Daniel Auster: 1st Jewish Mayor of Jerusalem (1937-1950) & signatory on the Israeli Declaration of Independence (1948) — $100 - $200
Lot 100019: Menachem Begin signed photo, in Hebrew, as M. Begin; — $150 - $300
Lot 100020: Menachem Begin signed copy of autobiographical book The Revolt: short personal message in English on title page, — $200 - $500
Lot 100021: Israeli 1948 War of Independence era children's education book: Melilot - Chapters for the Instructor of the Lower — $75 - $150
Lot 100022: Israel: Hagada shel Pesach Metzuyar (illustrated), in color; revised 2nd edition (undated, circa. 1958) by M. — $75 - $150
Lot 100023: Early Israeli military Judaica: 1949 War of Independence era pocket-sized hard-bound copy of TANACH, — $75 - $150
Lot 100024: Avishai Israel crafted silver set of combined Shabbat candles and Chanukkia (Hanukka menorah candelabra), — $400 - $800
Lot 100025: German Biblical color copperplate engraving of the Levites in the Tabernacle & Sanctuary of the Holy of Holies - based — $200 - $400
Lot 100026: Holyland print "View of the City of Jerusalem | in its Present State" by W.M.Craig & T. Kelly of Boston, c.1821; — $150 - $300
Lot 100027: Holyland color print "Mount Thabor" by W. H. Bartlett & J. Cousen, c.1839; image size: 18 x 11.8cm; matted. — $75 - $150
Lot 100028: Holyland lithograph print "Hebron", circa 1879 - uncredited; image size: 11.8 x 7.4cm; matted — $75 - $150
Lot 100029: Biblical print "The Judgment of Adam and Eve", by J. Martin & A.B. Walter c.19th Century; image size: 21.65 x 13.8cm. — $50 - $100
Lot 100030: Biblical print "Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still", by F. Danby RA & A.B. Walter c.19th Century; — $50 - $100
Lot 100031: Biblical print "The Strangers Sacrifice Accepted" from the book of Isaiah, by J. Martin & A.B. Walter c.19th Century; — $50 - $100
Lot 100032: Biblical print "Belshazzar's Feast", by J. Martin & A.B. Walter c.19th Century; image size: 21.5 x 14.4cm. — $50 - $100
Lot 100033: Biblical print "Fall of Ninveh", by J. Martin & A.B. Walter c.19th Century; image size: 21.6 x 14.2cm. — $50 - $100
Lot 100034: Biblical print "Esther Finds Favor", by Jean-Adolphe Beaucé & W. Thomas Sr., c.19th Century; image size: 25.3 x 18.4cm. — $50 - $100
Lot 100035: Biblical print "Jerusalem Taken Captive into Babylon", by J. Martin & A.B. Walter c.19th Century; — $50 - $100
Lot 100036: Biblical print "Rebuilding Jerusalem", c.19th Century; image size: 25.6 x 18.6cm. — $50 - $100
Lot 100037: Biblical print "Jephthah's Daughter Coming out to Meet her Father", by Gustave Doré & Dunk Longacre Co., c. — $50 - $100
Lot 100038: Black & White photograph of soldier in Russian imperial Czarist army and civilian next to him; — $50 - $100
Lot 100039: Hungarian color picture postcard souvenir foldout-folio with promotional, — $50 - $100
Lot 100040: Jewish Synagogues: Czechoslovakia > Prague - ALTNEU SHUL ("Old-New" Synagogue), — $40 - $80
Lot 100041: Jewish Synagogues: Czechoslovakia > Prague - OLD JEWISH CEMETARY black and white photographic postcard by Photobrom — $40 - $80
Lot 100042: Jewish Synagogues: Germany > Nürnberg - GREAT SYNAGOGUE (on Hans-Sachs-Platz) in background of Pegnitz river view on — $40 - $80
Lot 100043: World War I era transparency/Latern slide illustrated black & white glass photo of charity advertisement for Jewish — $50 - $100
Lot 100044: Two covers posted to Rabbi Avraham Kook in JERUSALEM; — $50 - $100
Lot 100045: Religious Jewish & Zionist ephemera: lot of 6x vouchers & receipts, including 1947 Zionist Shekel, — $50 - $100
Lot 100046: Israel/Palestine-Yishuv: lot of 7x receipts & vouchers of Jewish religious organizations, — $40 - $80
Lot 100047: Black & White photograph of Eshel Avraham/Abraham's Tamarisk tree/Oak of Mamre in protected area; — $50 - $100
Lot 100048: Bezalel artwork: square colored print of teacher with two students & blank space below for name/dedication, — $50 - $100
Lot 100049: Eretz Israel souvenir 'The Ideal Album - With Flowers from the Holy Land': unattributed nondenomination (though mostly — $50 - $100
Lot 100050: Palestine Silicate Factory addressed postal card from Belgium, July 1925, — $50 - $100
Lot 100051: Palestine Mandate era receipt for payment made into the municipal safe of JERUSALEM, — $50 - $100
Lot 100052: Nathaniel Transport company mentioned in a 1 Aug 1942 Telegram from ALEXANDRIA Egypt to HAIFA, — $50 - $100
Lot 100053: World War II British issued Services Guide to Cairo for soldiers; 32 pages + fold-out map (with key) & cover. — $50 - $100
Lot 100054: War of Independence - 1948 Minhelet Haam era "National Loan" initiative proclamation: large double-sided announcement — $75 - $150
Lot 100055: Palestine (Russia?): Rishon LeZion settlement/Theodore Herzl commemorative token, circa. 1898; bronze; — $200 - $300
Lot 100056: Israel/Palestine: tallion commemorating 25th anniversary of Tel Aviv's founding, (1934); tin; no maker-mark; — $100 - $200
Lot 100057: Egypt: Maspero Brothers Cigarette company bronze token, circa. 1930s; not maker-marked; size: 22.75mm; weight: 4.55g. — $75 - $150
Lot 100058: Mandate era tourist souvenir: small thick leather case with hammered image of Mosques, — $50 - $100
Lot 100059: Israel/Palestine souvenir pin of Jerusalem in English & Hebrew, depicting the Tower of David; — $50 - $100
Lot 100060: Israel: cast brass oval keychain tag with image entitled G-d Bless our Home and message on reverse Souvenir from Holy — $50 - $100
Lot 100061: Israeli souvenir/momento necklace, stone within silver .925 oval setting with Star of David on one side & . — $100 - $200
Lot 100062: Austria: 14th Zionist Congress delegate's pin, 1925; bronze and enamel; by M. Hammer of Vienna; size: 28mm; weight: 6g. — $75 - $150
Lot 100063: Israel: 23rd Zionist Congress pin, (1951); bronze; not maker-marked; size: 28.5mm; weight: 3.15g. — $30 - $60
Lot 100064: Palestine/Yishuv(?): commemorative pin for Maccabi sports association's 10th anniversary, circa. 1922; — $75 - $150
Lot 100065: Palestine: uniface medallion of 1st Maccabbi Games, 1932, in white metal; size 24.5 x 27.5mm; weight: 5.4g. 2 figures, — $200 - $400
Lot 100066: Palestine/Yishuv: participants stick-pin of the 2nd Maccabi Games ("Maccabiah") held in 1935, — $50 - $100
Lot 100067: Palestine/Yishuv(?): emblem pin of the Maccabi sports association with screw-back, circa. 1930s; not maker-marked; — $50 - $100
Lot 100068: Palestine/Yishuv(?): emblem stick-pin of the Maccabi sports association, circa. 1930s; not maker-marked; — $50 - $100
Lot 100069: Palestine/Yishuv: membership badge of the "Maccabi Zafon [North]" [table] tennis club of Basel-market in north Tel — $50 - $100
Lot 100070: Palestine/Yishuv(?): commemorative stick pin for Maccabi sports association's 17th anniversary, 1944; — $50 - $100
Lot 100071: South Africa: 10th South African Maccabi Sports Festival at East London 1968 gilt and color enamel pin with safety-pin — $30 - $60
Lot 100072: Israel: participant's bas relief uniface metal souvenir of the Maccabi sports organization Modiin march in memory of — $50 - $100
Lot 100073: Israel: participant's bas relief uniface metal souvenir of the Maccabi sports organization Jaffa march, — $50 - $100
Lot 100074: Israel: colored, — $50 - $100
Lot 100075: Palestine/Israel: Hapoel sports association maritime 'section' member's pin, circa. 1940's-50's; size: 24mm, — $100 - $200
Lot 100076: Palestine/Israel: Hapoel sports association emblem pin, circa. 1940's-50's, with safety-pin reverse; size: 17mm; — $50 - $100
Lot 100077: Palestine/Israel: large Hapoel sports association emblem pin, circa. 1940's-50's, with safety-pin reverse; — $50 - $100
Lot 100078: Palestine/Israel: colored Hapoel sports association emblem pin, circa. 1940's-50's, with safety-pin reverse; — $50 - $100
Lot 100079: Israel: uniface metal momento issued for the 1963 nightime Negev march of the HaPoel sports organization; 36mm, 16.3g — $50 - $100
Lot 100080: Palestine/Yishuv: first emblem of the Hebrew Boy Scouts, circa. 1918-1920s; not maker-marked (in the style of Bezalel); — $100 - $200
Lot 100081: Palestine: Haim Nachman Bialik "One Language - One Heart" pin, c. early 1930's; not maker-marked; size: 22.25mm; — $50 - $100
Lot 100082: Bronze colored participants stick-pin of the 1932 Shavuot Holiday festivities ("Hagigot HaBikurim") in Haifa; — $50 - $100
Lot 100083: Palestine/Yishuv: commemorative pin of the inauguration of the Tel Aviv sea port, 1936/38; not maker-marked; — $50 - $100
Lot 100084: Great Britain: numbered silver donor's pin of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO), circa. 1920's; — $150 - $300
Lot 100085: Palestine: silver donor's pin of the Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO), circa. 1930's; — $50 - $100
Lot 100086: Palestine/Yishuv: triangular 1930s era pin of the Magen David Adom / Red Star of David emergency medical services; — $50 - $100
Lot 100087: Palestine/Yishuv: Chaim Arlozorov uniface memorial plaquette by Meir Gur-Aryeh (Bezalel School, Jerusalem), circa. — $100 - $200
Lot 100088: Israel: [President] Yitzhak Ben-Zvi plaque by Yehuda Hershkovitz, ND (circa. 1952-1963); — $150 - $300
Lot 100089: Israel: large laquered bronze medallion commemorating Presidents Weizmann & Ben Zvi and the founding generation of the — $30 - $60
Lot 100090: Israel: small medallion commemorating Presidents Weizmann & Ben Zvi, the founding generation of the State; — $30 - $60
Lot 100091: US: small sized medal of Levi Eshkol "Prime Minister of Israel" with left facing relief portrait and English/Hebrew — $30 - $60
Lot 100092: South African Zionist Federation silvered bronze(?) token commemorating Israel's 25th anniversary, 1973; size: 32mm; — $30 - $60
Lot 100093: Germany: 75th anniversary of the Jewish National Fund gilded bronze token; not maker-marked; size: 39.5mm; — $30 - $60
Lot 100094: Israeli "Maimonides" ("Rambam") Lodge #54 member's badge, circa. 1950's-60's; not maker-marked (Haffner: JTM-MA-30); — $30 - $60
Lot 100095: Freemason pendant/tallion of standing eagle with raised wings set against radiating background, — $50 - $100
Lot 100096: Freemason medal depicting standing eagle with raised wings & 6-pointed star above with the letters PAC within; — $50 - $100
Lot 100097: Metal & colored enamel decorative pin; 14.85g. — $50 - $100
Lot 100098: Jordan(?): ornate award in white metal (silver?); size: 26.5 x 35 mm; weight: 4.5g. Obverse legend, — $30 - $60
Lot 100099: North African-Middle Eastern metal object resembling a spindle; 112mm long; 23g — $50 - $100
Lot 100100: Israel: "Jabotinsky Institute" celluloid pin, circa. 1950's-60's; size: 31.5mm; weight: 3g. — $30 - $60
Lot 100101: Israel: blue colored metal pin of the right-wing Herut political party led by Menachem Begin, circa. 1950s-60s; 0.85g, — $30 - $60
Lot 100102: Israel: blue colored metal pin of the right-wing Herut political party led by Menachem Begin, — $30 - $60
Lot 100103: Pin of the "Exhibition of the Revolt", 1958; 1.6 x 2.4cm, 0.9g. — $30 - $60
Lot 100104: Israel: metal trial impression of the pin design for the right-wing Herut movement's 6th national assembly, 1961; — $30 - $60
Lot 100105: Israel: colored metal-stamped pin for the 10th World Congress of the Betar movement, 1965; 2.25g, 26mm — $30 - $60
Lot 100106: Israel: colored metal pin of the "Young Guard" of the Labor Party; 2.1g, 23 x 18.75mm — $30 - $60
Lot 100107: Shlomo (Cheech) Lahat Tel Aviv mayoral elections promotional material - insert for casette tape, with his photo, — $50 - $100
Lot 100108: Israel: 1958 10th anniversary commemorative pin with ribbon reading "Decade to the State of Israel 5708 [1948] - 5718 — $50 - $100
Lot 100109: Israel: 1963 15th anniversary of independence commemorative pin, solid back, stamped Moshe Moro Jerusalem — $50 - $100
Lot 100110: Egged-Eshel bus cooperative 'sweetheart' pin, c. early 1950s; not maker-marked; 9 x 31mm, 0.5g. — $50 - $100
Lot 100111: Israel El-Al Airlines employee's emblem stick-pin, circa. 1949-62; not maker-marked; size: 10.25 X 23.25mm; — $50 - $100
Lot 100112: Israel: participant's pin for the 1952 Second World Congress of Jewish Physicians, held in Jerusalem; 30mm, 2.7g — $50 - $100
Lot 100113: Israeli bilingual French/English uniface tallion of the 3rd World Assembly (1955) of the World Medical Association, — $30 - $60
Lot 100114: Israel: 20th anniversary pin for the nursing school of Beilinson Hospital, 1956; — $50 - $100
Lot 100115: Israel: 25th anniversary pin for the nursing school of Beilinson Hospital, 1961; — $50 - $100
Lot 100116: Israel: solid backed metal & paint graduate's pin of the nursing school of the Kiryat Sanz Medical Center (Laniado — $50 - $100
Lot 100117: Members pin of the National Council for the Prevention of Traffic Accidents, — $30 - $60
Lot 100118: Gold colored "Safe Driver" award badge with diamond, with screw-back, from Tel Aviv-Jaffo 1958; size: 16mm; — $30 - $60
Lot 100119: Ramat Gan round municipality stick pin, circa. 1940's; size: 19.75 x 23mm; weight: 1.95g. — $30 - $60
Lot 100120: Tel-Aviv 50th anniversary bronze pin, 1959; size: 17.75 x 31.75mm; weight: 0.7g. — $30 - $60
Lot 100121: Israel: early version of Ramat Gan city High School Ohel-Shem pin, — $50 - $100
Lot 100122: Israel: "Geula" High School for Commerce 1952-53 graduates assembly pin; not maker-marked; — $50 - $100
Lot 100123: Israel: illustrated stamped metal pin commemorating 50th Jubilee of the Kibbutz Movement & establishment of Deganya, — $30 - $60
Lot 100124: Israeli 4th general elections "Member of the Ballot Box Committee" pin, 1959; size: 34mm; weight: 4g. — $30 - $60
Lot 100125: Israel: Chief Rabbinate "Heichal Shlomo" (Solomon's Hall) religious-courts pin depicting scales of justice & Biblical — $30 - $60
Lot 100126: United States/Canada: Yitzhak Leib Peretz commemorative celluloid pin, circa. 1915-1920s; — $30 - $60
Lot 100127: Israel: participants pin of the World Congress of Bessarabian Jews, 1958; 1.5g, 16 x 20.25mm — $30 - $60
Lot 100128: US: enamel on metal tallion commemorating 25th anniversary of the UJA United Jewish Appeal charity, 1964; 2.7g, — $30 - $60
Lot 100129: Bnei Akiva religious-Zionist youth movement 25th anniversary pin, 1959; 19.5mm, 3.2g. — $30 - $60
Lot 100130: "Bnei Akiva" religious-Zionist youth movement shaped member's pin, circa. 1950's-1960's, — $30 - $60
Lot 100131: Metal participation stick-pin of the 1957 Arms Expo held in Haifa; size: 25.25 x 33.5mm; weight: 1.15g. — $50 - $100
Lot 100132: Israel: award medal issued by the Israel Bridge Federation, with event & winner's name etched in Hebrew on the back, — $50 - $100
Lot 100133: Participants pin for the 24th Congress of the (now dissolved) International Organization for Motor Trades and Repairs — $30 - $60
Lot 100134: Keren HaYesod 50th anniversary bi-lingual silver commemorative stick-pin, 1970; size: 18.5 x 39mm; weight: 1.95g. — $50 - $100
Lot 100135: Israel: uniface metal participant's medal for the 7th Tel Hai march organized by the Working & Learning Youth movement — $50 - $100
Lot 100136: Israel: Samson's Inn/Mifgash Shimshon pentagonal cast bronze business plaquette, maker-marked Dayagi Israel; 49 x 50mm, — $50 - $100
Lot 100137: Israeli uniface business token for Ilan Krieger insurance agent from Bat Yam, with 6-digit phone number circa. — $20 - $40
Lot 100138: Palestine Police Force silver finished cap badge with 2-lugged back; size: 29.5 x 44mm; weight: 7.2g. — $75 - $150
Lot 100139: Palestine/Yishuv: 'Tower & Stockade' settlement initiative "Meguyas" ('recruited') pin, circa. 1936-1939; — $75 - $150
Lot 100140: War of Independence pre-State/Yishuv military draft document, — $50 - $100
Lot 100141: Israeli Army/IDF 1948 War of Independence era pin for a heavy mortar battalion, 1.1g. — $150 - $300
Lot 100142: Two (2x) old embossed uniform buttons of the Israeli Army/IDF, circa. 1948-early 1950's, not maker-marked. — $20 - $40
Lot 100143: Israel: Hagana (Defence Militia) service ribbon, with safety-pin back. — $50 - $100
Lot 100144: Israel: War of Independence campaign ribbon, with safety-pin back. — $50 - $100
Lot 100145: Israeli Army IDF Decoration of State Warriors clasp-pin: 10 x 12mm small nickel clasp, — $50 - $100
Lot 100146: IDF 'Fitness Badge' ("Ot HaKosher") silver class, circa. 1950's; not maker-marked (probably Shmuel Kretchmer); 16mm, — $50 - $100
Lot 100147: Israeli Army/IDF mini insignia pin for wear on battle-dress collar flap, on red felt background, circa. 1950's; — $20 - $40
Lot 100148: Small tunic emblem of the paratroop corps of the Israeli Army/IDF, circa. 1960's-70's; safety-pin reverse; — $50 - $100
Lot 100149: Israeli Army/IDF early version of battalion commanders course graduate's pin; 2.95g, 20.5 x 30.5mm — $50 - $100
Lot 100150: Israeli Army/IDF senior medical officer's service pin; 3.25g, 15.5 x 30.5mm — $50 - $100