Auction 113
Illustrious Personalities, Holocaust & Anti-Semitism, Historic Documents, Art, Seforim, Letters from Rabbis and Rebbes & manuscripts
By Winner'S
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Apr 8, 2019
3 Shatner Center 1st Floor Givat Shaul Jerusalem, Israel
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LOT 29:
Letter Pleading for Assistance from Sir Moshe Montefiore from the Rabbis of Isfahan. Persia, 1880
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Sold for: $500
Start price:
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500
Estimated price :
$700 - $800
Buyer's Premium: 22%
VAT: 17% On commission only
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Letter Pleading for Assistance from Sir Moshe Montefiore from the Rabbis of Isfahan. Persia, 1880
Letter with a cry for help 'Our eyes tear over, we the young sheep who have signed below ... we are at a low ... anguished and adrift ...' Persia, 1880. Very rare.
Calligraphic signatures of the following rabbis of Isfahan appear on the letters:
Rabbi Yehudah son of Yosef
Rabbi Yeshayah son of Yosef
Rabbi Avraham son of Yechezkel
Rabbi Yosef Shalom son of Yehudah Melamed
21x13 cm. Dark blue paper.
Condition Fine-very fine. Aging stains, folds at the edges of the leaf.
