Auction 12
Judaica - Books, Manuscripts, Rabbinical Letters
Oct 21, 2010
(Your local time)
Israel
8 Ramban St, Jerusalem.
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LOT 4:
Decorated Wimple – Germany, 1911
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Sold for: $480
Start price:
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150
Auction house commission:
23%
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Wimple [sash for the Torah, made of a diaper of a baby in his circumcision, according to the custom of Ashkenazi Jews]. With the writing: "Klonimus son of Ya'akov…". [Germany], 1911.
The text is in green and red with golden decorations. Vegetal and floral illustrations, a butterfly, a berries bush, a Torah, canopy and Maggen-David. One of the letters "ל" is in the shape of a stork's head. Under the baby's name appears the artist's(?) name in German: Karl Ernest Haÿum.
280X21cm. Good condition. Few stains, folding marks.
