Meir Gur-Aryeh – Sketches for "Bnei Binyamin" Bank Share

1. Original sketch for a share of "Bnei Binyamin" Cooperative Bank, created by Meir Gur-Aryeh, [ca. 1924]. Ink on paper, signed.
23X33 cm. Comments in pencil and markings in pen. Tears to edges, spots and pin-holes.
2. Printed share (lithograph), with markings and additions in pencil, created by Meir Gur-Aryeh.
27X19.5 cm. Pasted to cardboard. Tears, spots and folding marks.
"Bnei Binyamin" union was an organization founded in 1921 by farmers, named after Binyamin Ze'ev Herzl and Binyamin Rothschild. The original goals of this organization were to assist farmers in settlements, but shortly afterwards it turned into a society purchasing lands and establishing settlements. In order to achieve their goals "Bnei Binyamin" founded in 1924 a society named "HaNote'a" for planting orange groves – a society which was also involved in transferring Jewish property from Germany to Israel , as well as the "Bnei Binyamin Bank".