Auction 68 Jewish and Israeli History and Culture
Sep 19, 2019 (Your local time)
Israel
 8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 7:

Collection of Postcards – Theodor Herzl

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Ten postcards bearing portraits of Theodor Herzl. St. Petersburg, Warsaw, Vienna and elsewhere, the first half of the 20th century.
All the postcards bear portraits of Theodor Herzl and some of them mark dates or various events. Among them: • An undivided postcard with an overprint: "2. Öst. Zion. Parteitag, Bielitz, 18-19 V 1902" [Second Austrian Zionists' Convention, Bielitz, May 18-19, 1902]. • A postcard with the greeting "May you be inscribed for a good year" (Hebrew) and Herzl's portrait in a frame of "Zion" and JNF stamps with Max Nordau's portrait. • A postcard designed after a JNF stamp depicting Herzl on a balcony, facing the Tower of David. Published by Jos. B. Pardo, [Plovdiv, Bulgaria?]. • Memorial postcard designed by the artist Perec Willenberg. Warsaw, 1946. • And more.
Four of the postcards are undivided.
Approx. 14X9 cm. Good overall condition. Stains. Minor blemishes. Fractures. Pinholes. Five of the postcards were used.

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