Stone Binding Album and a Collection of Photographs – Cyprus Detention Camps

Stone Binding Album and a Collection of Photographs – Cyprus Detention Camps
Album with a chiseled stone binding by a detainee in the Cyprus detention camps and a collection of photographs taken in the camps. Cyprus, 1947-[1949].
stone binding carved with a relief of a sailboat in a medallion and with the inscription "Cyprus 1947", mounted on a felt base (new).
With 13 corner-mounted photographs taken in the detention camps in Cyprus. Some are captioned in the plate "Memory from Cyprus" (Hebrew) and "Cyprus 5708" (Hebrew) and some are inscribed "Lehagshamah" (to fulfillment). Alongside the photographs, the album contains two "Shanah Tovah" greeting cards published by "Palphot", one depicting illegal immigrants getting off a ship at the shores of Palestine, inscribed within with the wish "We hope that you too will be among the arrivals this year" (Hebrew).
Album: approx. 11X24 cm. Good condition. Scratches and scuff marks to stone. Photographs: size and condition vary. Good overall condition. Some photographs captioned and dated by hand on verso (English).
Provenance: The Rimon Family Collection.