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Bidding Information
Lot #    17250
Auction End Date    3/13/2007 11:22:00 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    10 Postcards
Title (Hebrew)    ëøèéñ-ãåø
Author    M. Gur-Aryeh - Bezalel
City    Jerusalem
Publisher    Zion
Publication Date    c. 1920
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    10 cards with wrapper 67:130 mm., lightage staining.
          
Detailed
Description		    Complete set of ten miniature postcards with the original wrapper, from Mandate Palestine by M. Gur-Aryeh - Bezalel. Each of these small cards is comprised of a front side for the address and, where the stamp is to be place a unique black and white vignette. The reverse side has a Hebrew and English “Post Card” heading and in the middle in Hebrew the text that is from Benei Bezalel in Jerusalem. The vignettes are of a child giving charity to an old man with the caption in Hebrew and English, almsgiving; of two Jews at the Western Wall, one praying, the other sitting, presumably looking for charity, with the caption, The Wailing Wall; a woman drawing water from a well with animals and a tree in the background with the heading At the well; a young man sitting on a rock playing a flute with trees and a dog, with the caption “Ya-Halil; an elderly man dancing before a sitting crowd with the caption A Yemenite dance; gathering crops with the caption Harvest time; two people at a well captioned Job’s well; a person riding a horse praying, captioned A prayer;a sofer at work, captioned Torah Scribe; and last a young man digging captioned Pioneer. The wrapper, with blue ink, has a young man and a young woman leaning on a low pillar facing each other over the Hebrew and facing English text Silhoutes of Palestine by M. Gur-Aryeh – Bezalel, Jerusalem.
          
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20th Century:    Checked
  
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