SIGNIFICANT JUDAICA Mailbid Sale

Germany: Federjudenmedaille "Feather Jew" oval medal (ND), circa. 1650; struck in silver; by Christian Wermuth or Johann Reteke; size: 42 x 46mm; weight: 27.45g. Obv.: hunched Jew facing left w/ feathered cap holding bag w/ Latin legend "vitia aliena" ['alien way of life'] and moneybag on back with Latin legend "vitia propria" ['his own faults']. Rev.: winged Cupid on lion holding a bridle in left hand; Latin leg. below "Amor...

France: Consistorial Synagogue of Bordeaux establishment medal, 1810; struck in copper; by Louis Jaley; size: 35.25mm; weight: 19.95g. Obv.: 3-line Fr. leg. "Synagogue Consistoriale de Bordeaux" + "Jaley FT." ('Fabrique Travaille' - workshop?] in exergue. Rev.: 5-line Fr. leg. "Eleveé en L'an 1810 Sous le Regne de Napoleon le Grand." ['Erected in the year 1810 under the reign of Napoleon the Great']. Synagogue designed by...

Germany > Frankfurt: x2 proof non-denominational silver coins commemorating 1200 years to Frankfurt's founding, by MDM; size: 40mm. Obverse depicts the city's coat of arms and the dates 794 - 1200. Reverse of one depicts the Frankfurt Synagogue, with date of founding (1910); the reverse of the other depicts right-facing bust of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, with his dates of birth and death. In proof state with a few signs of...

Hungary: 125th Anniversary Budapest Unification/Dohany Street Synagogue silver proof medal, by György Bognár; size: 42mm; weight: 36g; thickness: 3.5mm. Obverse depicts the city's coat of arms with legend in Hungarian "Pest Buda, Óbuda-Egyesítésének 125. Évfordulójára • Budapest # 1998" ('125th Anniversary of Budapest Unifcation'). On reverse an image of the Synagogue exterior with a set of Tablets superimposed and the...

Netherlands: cast silver spoon commemorating 250th Anniversary of Portuguese -Jewish Synagogue, 1925; by E.L. Molenberg & Zoon (Groningen); size: 37.75 x 123mm; weight: 17.45g. On finial 'eagle protecting brood' as per design on the Synagogue; relief image of building on spoon base; leg. above "KKTT 5435" ='Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah 1675' (Sacred Assembly Students of the Torah, 1925) & below "Portug[ees] -Israel[...

First Circular of the Temporary Committee of the Jews in the Occupied Territories, Rosh Chodesh [start of month] Iyar 5678 (12 April 1918); 8 pages; size: 17.1 x 22.95cm; printed by Sa'adia Shoshani, Jaffo: 8-page circular discusses key issues of interest to the Jewish community - language, judiciary & unionization - almost 30 years to the day (5 Iyar) before Israel's independence. The TCJ was a forerunner of the "...

Commercial cover (Reichs Commissioner stationary) ex office of Reichskommissar for Netherlands (Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart) in The Hague to Van Gelder & Sohn paper mill business in Amsterdam, with machine slogan, postmarked 25 March 1943; with "dienstpost" red cachet and special cachet of the Reichskommissar's office. Gently opened at top; minor edge tears taped shut. Among his duties, Seyss-Inquart was responsible for the...

Entry ticket to the "First Knesset" - the first assembly of the elected Israeli Parliament, 9 March 1949; uniface; numbered 993; size: 10.5 x 7.9cm. The first meeting of the then titled "Constituent Assembly" already took place on 14 Feb. 1949, and there it voted to change its name to the "Knesset" and to call the first assembly of that body the "First Knesset". With the establishment of that Assembly, the existing...

Israel: "Steimatzky's Pictoral Map of Jerusalem", August 1949 edition. Originally published in 1941, it underwent a revision in 1949 for which the armistice lines between Israel and [Trans]Jordan were added, and the phrase "Made in Palestine" was blocked out & replaced by "Made in Israel". Drawn by Shlomo Ben David and originally printed by Offset Bezalel, this 1949 edition was printed by Monson Press in Jerusalem -...