Auction 5 Eretz Israel, settlement, anti-Semitism, Holocaust and She'erit Ha-Pleita, postcards and photographs, letters by rabbis and rebbes, Chabad, Judaica, and more
By DYNASTY
Apr 1, 2020
1 Abraham Ferera, Jerusalem., Israel

The auction will take place on Wednesday, April 1, 2020 at 18:00 (Israel time).


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LOT 97:

fr. vester Publishing [American Colony] - Postcards Collection

Sold for: $140
Start price:
$ 120
Buyer's Premium: 22%
VAT: 17% On commission only

fr. vester Publishing [American Colony] - Postcards Collection


20 postcards with views from Eretz Israel published by fr. vester - American Colony photographer, early 20th century.


Postcards::Important sites in the city of Jerusalem, figures from the Land of Israel, the Dead Sea, the Jordan, and more.


Vester  was born in Jerusalem in 1869. He married Bertha Spafford, the daughter of the founders of the American Colony, and became a leading photographer in the American Colony as he accompanied the visit of the German Kaiser William II in 1898 by first-rate historical photographs. In fact He was the head of the photographic branch of the American Colony. His photographs were real, and there were almost no staged scenes like the ones before him. The technical quality of the photographs, and the angles of the photograph were meticulously made uncompromising. Many of the postcards in the series he published are the initial visual documentation of those places, which appeared over the years in dozens of different editions according to the source in this series.


Overall very good condition.