LOT 136:
Four "Shanah Tovah" Postcards – Germany and Palestine, First Decades of the 20th Century
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Four "Shanah Tovah" Postcards – Germany and Palestine, First Decades of the 20th Century
Four "Shanah Tovah" postcards. Germany and Palestine, ca. early 20th century until the 1920s.
1. Undivided postcard published by A. J. Hofmann, Frankfurt am Mein, with a print after Hermann Junker – the prayer of Jewish soldiers on Yom Kippur in the city of Metz. On the bottom, a Hebrew stamp: "LeShanah Tovah" [For a Happy New Year].
2. Postcard published by M.M.S.W, no year or place of publication. On the upper-right corner, an illustration of an engine of a train and the German inscription "High Speed Rail to Palestine" and on the lower-left corner a picture of a Jerusalemite landscape and the Hebrew inscription "who has granted us life, sustained us and enabled us to reach this occasion". Was sent by mail.
3. Postcard published by B. Harz, Berlin, with an illustration after Ephraim Moses Lilien – the entrance to the site of the Tombs of the Kings in Jerusalem. Stamped on both sides in Hebrew: "Happy New Year". Sent by mail in 1923.
4. "Happy New Year – 1926, a greeting from Palestine" (Hebrew) – a photographed postcard with a picture of a father and a baby, and four pictures of Palestine.
Approx. 14x9 cm. Good condition. Minor stains and blemishes. One postcard is in good-fair condition, with many stains and creases.
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