AN IMPORTANT GOLD AND SILVER CIGARETTE BOX BY ILYA SCHOR GIVEN TO THE ARTIST MANE - KATZ. New York,

Crafted from an Austrian cigarette case. Decorated with gold and silver openwork reliefs of Jewish figures including a sofer, a violinist, a cellest, a father discipling a child, a guard, a child giving flowers to an artist. a wood chopper, a bagpipe player, a flutisit, a percussionist and a shoemaker on the front. On the back there is a man affixing a mezuzah to a doorpost, a man carrying wheat, a man performing kapporot on a child and woman, a man with a spice tower, a man blowing the shofar, a man with a lulav and etrog, a man saying kiddush with his family and simchat torah. The front is inscribed WIth an excerpt from Psalms 115: The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth he gave to mankind.  The back is inscribed from Psalm 51: Cast me not away from your presence, take not your holy spirit from me. 

Formerly in the Isaiah Shachar Collection

New York, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, The Collector's Room: Selections from the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Collection, 1993, no. 39, p. 22

Inscribed in Yiddish with a dedication from Ilya Schor to his friend Mane-Katz dated to 1943 in New York,