Bidspirit auctions | Moreshet Auction Mar 17, 2021
Moreshet, Mar 17, 2021. 245 lots, estimates 80 - 80000 $.
Moreshet - A special auction with extraordinary items of love for the Land of Israel, the beginning of Zionism, religious Zionism and its greatness, the Holocaust, the destruction and the subsequent resurrection in the Land of Israel
Lots in this catalog (245)
- Lot 001: Letter from Rabbi Yitzhak Yaakov Reines to the residents of Ekron, in Israel,
- Lot 002: A handwritten blessing from the Raya Kook “with thanks and blessing and gmar hatima tova”—an extremely rare segula
- Lot 003: A rare letter from Rav Kook—“Shalom Between Sages”—not included in Igrot HaRaya! No existing copy of this.
- Lot 004: An early letter of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook on “Israeli culture”, from Yafo, 17th Kislev 1913,
- Lot 005: An early and previously unknown letter from Rabbi Zvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook, about “Israeli culture”, from Yafo,
- Lot 006: “Israeli culture” – a religious literary collection published and edited by Rabbi Zvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook in Yafo—rare!
- Lot 007: An exciting historical letter signed and stamped by the leader of Chibat Zion, Rabbi Shmuel Mohaliver,
- Lot 008: Printed poster of Rav Kook from the Horodna Kollel, for the Rav Meir Baal HaNes kuppah. 1925,
- Lot 009: Very rare poster of Rav Kook with whom and why to vote in the elections. Important content.
- Lot 010: Handwritten and signed condolence letter from Rabbi Zvi Yehuda HaKohen Kook.
- Lot 011: Journal of Aliyot, handwritten, with the aliyot to the Torah and donations to the Great Synagogue in Kiryat Moshe,
- Lot 012: Sefer Atzei Broshim with a handwritten dedication by the author, the Gaon Motz and elder sage of Vilna,
- Lot 013: Letter handwritten by Rabbi Dr. Nehemiah Zvi Nobel—an important German rabbi,
- Lot 014: Receipt for 3,000 rubles for land in Israel, written and signed by the Gaon Rabbi Haim Zvi Hirsch Shapira of Bobrevisk,
- Lot 015: Postcard handwritten in Hebrew by the Gaon Rabbi Baruch Meyers (later Marcus),
- Lot 016: Postcard sent from a member of the Mizrahi movement in Romania to his friend who had already merited moving to Israel
- Lot 017: Collection of postcards from a religious pioneer of the 5th Aliyah.
- Lot 018: “From today I do not belong to you or to myself,
- Lot 019: Letter from a religious pioneer of the Bnei Akiva movement, from Kibbutz Birya,
- Lot 020: Unique letter from Moses Montefiore, written entirely in Hebrew with his signature in Hebrew and English—1880. Rare.
- Lot 021: Unique item! A colorful lithograph from 120 years ago (Vilna 1902), — $800 - $1,600
- Lot 022: Letter from David Saliman Sassoon on finding the handwriting of the Rambam in the Cairo Geniza. — $400
- Lot 023: A unique collection of items from the area’s first High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel.
- Lot 024: Small cloth strip with the inscription “Yom Herzl 20th Tammuz, El-Arish, 1919”, the Land of Israel Battalion.
- Lot 025: A note from heaven ... "shehechiyanu v’ki’emanu v’higianu to give a hand to the first national leader" - on 14.5.48,
- Lot 026: Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin—leader of Agudas Yisrael during the establishment of the state,
- Lot 027: Historic item! Three volumes of the IDF’s first booklets, used by the commander and doctor Nachum Ben-Hur.
- Lot 028: Envelope sent by an imprisoned Lehi operative, Chaya Nussbaum (later Ben David), from the Beit Lehem prison, 1943,
- Lot 029: Postcard sent by a prisoner at the Atlit Internment Camp, 15 June 1942.
- Lot 030: 2 unique letters with special stamps, from the Polonya ship,
- Lot 031: Very interesting material from the JNF-KKL marking Herzl’s 70th birthday, with material for conversations, lectures,
- Lot 032: Postcard sent to Dr. Walter Eichenberg,
- Lot 033: Legitimationskarte, the identity card of Jews in Germany just before Hitler rose to power. 1933.
- Lot 034: The original issue of Judische Rundschau,
- Lot 035: Handwritten pages with testimony by a Shoah survivor from Poland on the anti-Semitism she experienced in her youth
- Lot 036: “Chwila” (Moment), the wonderful Polish-language Jewish daily newspaper,
- Lot 037: “Nowy Dziennik” (the New Daily Newspaper), the oldest Polish-language Jewish newspaper in Poland, Krakow, issue #16,
- Lot 038: Wedding invitation for a few days before the Second World War and the occupation of Poland by the Nazis,
- Lot 039: A collection of envelopes, stamps, and postcards, sent from Breslau, Disbourg, and Berlin,
- Lot 040: Shoah material: a letter which arrived too late and was returned to Israel…a postcard sent from Israel to the Brodum
- Lot 041: An improvised letter from the Westerbork camp, a transit camp for Dutch Jews on their way to Auschwitz,
- Lot 042: Templar Bank—3 items on the transfer of money from German Jews to Israel, just before World War
- Lot 043: 2 certificates with mail stamps for the transfer of money, using the postal service,
- Lot 044: A “poem” handwritten by a Sonderkommando at Auschwitz.
- Lot 045: A Nazi-German eagle image which was spread around Ukraine with a vicious anti-Semitic caricature.
- Lot 046: Signature handwritten by the righteous Mrs. Anna Feuerstein, “the Janusz Korczak of Krakow”,
- Lot 047: 3 envelopes from Jews in Hungarian work camps during the Second World War,
- Lot 048: Rare! 2 ‘airgraph’ letters, Britain-Palestine, from World War II,
- Lot 049: Original photograph!! Rare photo of Jews sent out to do digging work at the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland,
- Lot 050: Appearance letter sent to Jews by the Nazi authorities in Ukraine,
- Lot 051: 2 postcards sent by a Jewish woman, Mrs. Biela Reich,
- Lot 052: Postcard from a prisoner in Auschwitz, to Radom, Poland. Stamps, 1943, plus 10 handwritten lines.
- Lot 053: A parcel and card sent by post from the Majdanek Concentration camp, with Nazi postage stamps and ink stamps. — $80
- Lot 054: The Youngest Boy in Buchenwald: three interesting and emotional envelopes signed by the gaon Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau,
- Lot 055: Historic, museum-worthy item: a special envelope sent by the Rothschild family to Julius Robert Oppenheimer,
- Lot 056: Letter from a member of the underground in the Kovna (Kaunus) Ghetto—a partisan involved in the “Death to Occupiers”
- Lot 057: A group of emotional letters sent by Jewish soldiers in the Red Army during World War II. 1943-44. Russian.
- Lot 058: 36 full letters with envelopes,
- Lot 059: Kuriren—an important Swedish newspaper—from 30 November 1945,
- Lot 060: Lot of documents from Shoah survivors, from DP camps, particularly “HaGalil”, in the American zone,
- Lot 061: Lot of items from Shoah survivors—original documents from those who survived, among the last Jews in Krakow—Mrs.
- Lot 062: Lot of items from Shoah survivors in Germany—an instructor and an orphan in the well-known Jewish children's home in
- Lot 063: 4 postcards from a friend in Israel looking on behalf of a Jew from Krakow (a Shoah survivor) for relatives in Israel.
- Lot 064: Five booklets in Esperanto from the library of the man “who believed in humanity” - Carl Minor,
- Lot 065: 20 Lithuanian lita bill produced to mark 60 years since the liquidation of the Vilna Ghetto.
- Lot 066: A coin produced as a critical distortion of that released in 1935 by the Reich’s government with Hitler on it. Rare!
- Lot 067: Letter with Yafo stamp, #65, of the Ottoman postal service in Israel, approximately 1870. Sent from Yafo to Jerusalem. — $80,000
- Lot 068: very early letter stamped and ink stamped, from Paris to Lord S. Hirsch, the administrator of Mikveh Yisrael,
- Lot 069: Original notice: tours at the Hebrew University and the Library,
- Lot 070: Ottoman postal routes in Israel: Two postcards sent from New York to Rehovot via Jaffa, 1915,
- Lot 071: Postcard, German postage in Jerusalem, 1909. With Judaica! Hebrew writing! From the historian and bibliographer,
- Lot 072: Havatzelet newspaper, with an Ottoman postage stamp and Ottoman ink stamp “Jerusalem” (in Hebrew), from 1901.
- Lot 073: A fascinating postcard of the history of the Ottoman and Austrian Post in Eretz Israel,
- Lot 074: The German Post Office in Jerusalem - a rare double postcard with an uncatalogued stamp,
- Lot 075: The most important Jewish postal slot in the time of the Turks, the postal box of Rabbi Shmuel Salant, — $1,000
- Lot 076: Envelope of the General Soup Kitchen for the Poor of Bnei Yisrael, headed by Rabbi Leib Herschel Dayan,
- Lot 077: Great envelope of the Austrian Post in Eretz Israel, certified post, Jaffa stamp 20.7.14,
- Lot 078: Postcard, 1909, Hebrew handwriting, from the French postal service in Egypt,
- Lot 079: Postcard sent from Jerusalem to Hevron using the Turkish post, 1902, Jerusalem stamp and receipt stamp from Hevron,
- Lot 080: Austrian postage, postcard from Jerusalem to Jaffa, 1907,
- Lot 081: Interesting and pretty envelope which travelled the world during the First World War—Turkish Post,
- Lot 082: Letters from the Schneller Syrian Orphanage in Jerusalem,
- Lot 083: Shana tova postcards, Germany 1913, photograph of “Jerusalem from the southeast”, with David’s citadel.
- Lot 084: Postcard, Turkish postal service, Jerusalem 1899, sent to Germany, photograph of Kfar HaShiloach and the Mt. of Olives.
- Lot 085: 4 early postcards, 1900, two of which are from hotels, sent to Prof. Toplitz in Breslau, a famous Jewish mathematician.
- Lot 086: Mandate Postal Service, 4 envelopes, 1920-21, to David Slotzkin in London, from his partner in Jerusalem,
- Lot 087: Certified letter from the US to Israel, 1926,
- Lot 088: 2 original envelopes, different, of the Gaon Rabbi Eliezer Yehuda Finkel, head of the Mir yeshiva,
- Lot 089: Envelope from the Haganah headquarters in the Negev that was flown by plane to the Haganah headquarters in Tel Aviv,
- Lot 090: Postcard sent from a mother and father to their son,
- Lot 091: 2 important envelopes sent by post, with the “State of the Jews” stamp.
- Lot 092: Postcard from the first day of the Hebrew postal service, 16 May 1948, Pardes Hannah,
- Lot 093: Envelope with a pair of Hebrew postal stamps of 5mill, with Mandate box stamp “to pay 10 mills”, with a stamp of T,
- Lot 094: A collection of 19 Mandatory registered postal parcel forms that were used with the establishment of the state to send
- Lot 095: First Day Cover Envelope, “My Stamps” (HaBul Sheli), Yitzhak Rabin in the War of Independence,
- Lot 096: Attempts to print sheets of the Jewish National Fund stamps: Elimination of the Yemenite exile + accompanying
- Lot 097: Souvenir page, Opening of the railway line to Jerusalem, Malcha station, April 9, 2005, rare.
- Lot 098: Five good souvenir pages, limited editions.
- Lot 099: Lot of philatelic history, Haifa from 1935-47.
- Lot 100: 9 envelopes sent to a senior member of the Jewish community of the city of Gismonda, Jacob Thorner, Germany,
- Lot 101: Old, mint condition Canadian stamps. Original glue, no perforations—extremely rare items! — $800 - $1,000
- Lot 102: Military censor on a letter sent by the Chief of Staff Yigal Yadin (everyone equal under the law),
- Lot 103: Signature of the Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, handwritten on a thank you letter to the author David Ettinger,
- Lot 104: Wonderful autograph of the Prime Minister Golda Meir, 1974. .
- Lot 105: First Day Cover of education stamps, 1972,
- Lot 106: 4 first day cover envelopes of great Jewish musicians: Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Arnold Schoenberg, Darium Mew,
- Lot 107: Series of 7 sheets of first day cover envelopes from places in Israel, 1994,
- Lot 108: Salute to Jerusalem! A collection of 50 [! — $500
- Lot 109: Signature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a First Day Cover envelope for the stamp made in honor of the song
- Lot 110: Wonderful collection of 13 First Day Cover envelopes on Tel Aviv—all stamped by the Mayor Ron Huldai.
- Lot 111: Large photograph, original, previously unknown(!),
- Lot 112: An original play for children in two acts, typewritten in English, 1975, about the lives of Jews in the USSR – English
- Lot 113: “Ialomitei, Curierul ziar de dreptate” Newspaper in Romanian: The Messenger of Ilomiti [District of Romania],
- Lot 114: A lottery ticket from the famous Australian lottery of George Adams, one hundred and twenty years ago!
- Lot 115: Extremely rare, historic item!
- Lot 116: Historic item! Establishment of the Histadrut for Farmers in Israel—signed by Menashe Meirowitz, — $100 - $200
- Lot 117: Size: 29x22.5cm. — $100 - $120
- Lot 118: Eliezer, Rebecca, — $500 - $600
- Lot 119: Letter to a Jewish resident of Gaza, 1930, after the events of 1929.
- Lot 120: Wonderful!
- Lot 121: Lot of 15 quartets of stamps featuring coins
- Lot 122: Lot of 7 quartets of postage stamps
- Lot 123: Lot of 2 sextets of airmail stamps, 30 and 50 prutot
- Lot 124: Set of airmail postage stamps, 1954
- Lot 125: Lot of 4 sets of 3 quartets of ‘Moadim L’Simcha’ stamps, 1954
- Lot 126: Airmail postage stamps 1950
- Lot 127: Lot of 4 sets of World Mail Association stamps, 1950
- Lot 128: Set of ‘Moadim L’Simcha’ stamps, 1951
- Lot 129: Lot of 6 stamps from Petah Tikva
- Lot 130: Jerusalem stamp 1949, Menorah stamp 1952, and American Zionist House stamp 1950
- Lot 131: Lot of stamps featuring coins with the bottom tab, never used as mail
- Lot 132: Lot of Yom HaAtzmaut stamps
- Lot 133: Lot of 6 sheets of tax accounting stamps
- Lot 134: Set of transit stamps 1960
- Lot 135: Album of Israeli stamps
- Lot 136: Very handsome album of Israeli stamps
- Lot 137: Album featuring complete rows and sheets of Israeli stamps
- Lot 138: Album of Israeli stamps, around 25 full pages
- Lot 139: Rich album of Israeli stamps
- Lot 140: Album of Israel stamps including Hebrew postal service
- Lot 141: Album of Israeli and foreign stamps, including China and others.
- Lot 142: Album of stamps, mainly from abroad
- Lot 143: Album of Israeli stamps, 1970s-80s
- Lot 144: Album of Israeli stamps
- Lot 145: Album of stamps from countries around the world, including antique stamps
- Lot 146: Huge album of German stamps from the 1940s
- Lot 147: Album of stamps from West Germany
- Lot 148: Album of Italian stamps from 1862-1970
- Lot 149: Lot of 5 pamphlets of stamps from 1955-1970
- Lot 150: Portugal 1944 exhibit of national stamps