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20.6.17
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Miniature Scroll of Esther with unique olive wood case. Jerusalem, 1897

Продан за: $1 600
Стартовая цена:
$ 1 500
Эстимейт :
$2 000 - $3 000
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Miniature Scroll of Esther with unique olive wood case. Jerusalem, 1897

Decorated miniature Scroll of Esther with an olive wood case designed like a Torah Scroll case. Jerusalem, 1897.

Description of megilla: [5] sewn strips of parchment. The parchment is 61 mm. wide. Nice scribal hand, Velish script, 14 lines. "Megillat HaMelech" - at the top of each column, the word "HaMelech" is decorated with flowers.

Case: Sculpted olive wood case made by a craftsman specifically for this scroll. It is designed like a Torah Scroll, with "atzei chaim" that serve as a rollers for the megilla. The outer section of the case has an artistic sculpture of the Western Wall and Temple Mount with matching text in ink. Interior dedication: "This case and scroll were gifted to the groom and youth Shmuel Dovid Katz son of Shimon Asher Katz...[1897]...Jerusalem..." With a metal clasp (key imissing).

Condition: Very fine. The parchment bears a few fold marks, as a result of rolling the parchment.