AUTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE continued...
| LotNo. |
Symbol |
CatNo. |
Lot Description |
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| 581 |
E |
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 1915 (26 July)
registered cover (flap missing) from "Zion Mule Corps", S.Z. 1 Army Post Office cds (Gallipoli) addressed to Miss E. Rosoff (girlfriend) in Alexandria, endorsed "from Captain (Joseph) TRUMPELDOR Zion Mule Corps, Mediterranean Exped. Force Gallipoli"
(the Zion Mule Corps was formed in 1915, considered to be the first all-Jewish military unit organized in close to two thousand years, and the ideological beginning of the Israel Defense Forces) (Image)
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SOLD for $375.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 582 |
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 1915
typewritten letter, on KKL (Jewish National Fund) stationery, signed by Menachem Ussishkin (a Russian-born Zionist leader and head of the Jewish National Fund)
(Image)
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SOLD for $100.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 583 |
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 1916 Telegram
to Menachem Ussishkin in Odessa, from Weizman (Chaim) in London requesting "please send message first number Zionist Review of Political (sp) Organ Federation = Weizman"
(Image)
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SOLD for $140.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 584 |
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 1915 (1 Oct)
letter on "Zionist Bureau For New England" stationery, signed by JACOB DE HAAS (a British-born Jewish journalist and an early leader of the Zionist movement in the United States. Jacob De Haas was born in London. He was the secretary of the First
Zionist Congress and he introduced Theodor Herzl to the UK in the Jewish World newspaper. In 1896, he was the first member of Hovevei Zion to encourage the movement)
(Image)
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SOLD for $80.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 585 |
E |
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 1917 letter
and envelope, from GEN. EDMUND ALLENBY, to American Consul General, Cairo, both signed "ALLENBY" (On the first day of Hanukkah in December 1917, the Battle of Jerusalem resulted in the city of Jerusalem falling to British forces led by General
Allenby, after 400 years under Turkish rule. Allenby was an accomplished horseman and it would have made sense for him to ride triumphantly into the city. However on 11 December Allenby entered on foot out of his great respect for the Holy City,
becoming the first Christian to control the city in centuries) (Image)
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SOLD for $290.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 586 |
E |
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 1920 selection
of seven covers, all written by Z. JABOTINSKY, from his travels all over the world. Poor condition, interesting lot (Ze'ev Jabotinsky, MBE, was a Russian Jewish Revisionist Zionist leader, author, poet, orator, soldier and founder of the Jewish
Self-Defense Organization in Odessa. With Joseph Trumpeldor, he co-founded the Jewish Legion) (Image) (image 586a)
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SOLD for $95.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 587 |
E |
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 1920
handwritten love letter from ZEEV JABOTINSKY to girlfriend NINA BERLIGNE (Berlin), with Registered envelope signed on reverse (Image)
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SOLD for $350.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 588 |
E |
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 1919 Picture
Postcard with message signed by BELLA BERLIN with postscript by NINA Berlin (Bella and Nina Berligne, the daughters of a Palestinian olive oil manufacturer, were romantically involved with Jabotinsky) (Image)
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CLOSED
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 589 |
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 1924 (10 Dec),
typewritten letter, England, signed "BALFOUR" (Lord Arthur James Balfour was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. Later, as Foreign Secretary, he was notable for the Balfour Declaration in 1917, a letter to Lord Rothschild
affirming the government's support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire) (Image)
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SOLD for $270.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 590 |
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 1939 (15 Feb)
Princeton, N.J., typed letter and original envelope to Jewish Press Agency, signed A. EINSTEIN (Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. His work is also
known for its influence on the philosophy of science) (Image) (image 590a)
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SOLD for $1,600.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 591 |
E |
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 1941 envelope
and card signed by BEN HECHT (an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write thirty-five books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He
received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films, including Scarface, It's a Wonderful Life, Gunga Din)
(Image) (image 591a)
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SOLD for $95.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 592 |
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 1941 Letter on
"Jewish Agency for Palestine" stationery, signed by DR. ARTHUR RUPPIN (Arthur Ruppin was a Zionist thinker and leader. He was one of the founders of the city of Tel Aviv, and directed Berlin's Bureau for Jewish Statistics and Demography from 1902 to
1907. Ruppin joined the Zionist Organization in 1905 and in 1907 he was sent by David Wolfsohn, the President of the ZO, to study the condition of the Yishuv (the Jewish community in Palestine), then in the Ottoman Empire, to investigate the
possibilities for development of agriculture and industry. He reported on what he saw, which was distressing, and gave recommendations for improving the situation. In 1908 Ruppin came to live in Palestine by decision of the eighth Zionist Congress.
He opened the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa, with the aim of directing the settlement activities of the Zionist movement. His work made Practical Zionism possible and shaped the direction of the Second Aliya, the last wave of
Jewish immigration to Palestine before World War I) (Image)
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SOLD for $110.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 593 |
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 1915 letter
from BELLA BERLIN to ARTHUR RUPPIN with a handwritten reply from him (Arthur Ruppin was a chief Zionist land agent. He helped to get a loan for Ahuzat Bayit, later Tel Aviv, and acquired land on the Carmel, in Afula, in the Jezreel Valley, and in
Jerusalem) (Image)
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CLOSED
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 594 |
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 1948 Charcoal
Portrait (12c16in) of CHAIM WEIZMANN by Famous Jewish Artist, Joseph Budko and personally signed by Chaim Weizmann and Joseph Budko (Chaim Azriel Weizmann was a Zionist leader and Israeli statesman who served as President of the Zionist Organization
and later as the first President of Israel. He was elected on 16 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952. Weizmann convinced the United States government to recognize the newly formed state of Israel) (Image)
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SOLD for $900.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 595 |
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 1948 Vellum
with memorial for soldier who fell in the 1948 War of Independence, signed DAVID BEN GURION (the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first Prime Minister of Israel) (Image)
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SOLD for $180.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 596 |
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 1959 (15 Sep),
typewritten letter, New York, signed "B.M. BARUCH" (Bernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S.
Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters, and became a philanthropist) (Image)
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SOLD for $120.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 597 |
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 1960 Typed
Letter on his stationery, signed MENACHEM SCHNEERSON, folded and some stains, rare (Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to many as the Rebbe, was a Russian Empire-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the last rebbe of the Lubavitcher Hasidic
dynasty. He is considered one of the most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century) (Image)
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SOLD for $525.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 598 |
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 1960 Typed
Letter on his stationery, signed RABBI I. SCHNEERSON (Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known to many as the Rebbe, was a Russian Empire-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, and the last rebbe of the Lubavitcher Hasidic dynasty. He is considered one of the
most influential Jewish leaders of the 20th century) (Image)
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SOLD for $700.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 599 |
E |
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 1972 Israeli
Space cover signed by JOHN GLENN (an aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States senator. He was one of the "Mercury Seven" group of military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA to become America's first astronauts) (Image)
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CLOSED
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
| 600 |
E |
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 1977 Tel Aviv
to Cairo first flight cover, signed by President RONALD REAGAN (40th President of the United States from 1981 to 1989) (Image)
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SOLD for $150.00
Closing..Jun-13, 09:00 AM |
