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Manuscript, Collectibles and Aerospace Auction

Judaica

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 986		Begin, Menachim (1913-1992) Israeli prime minister (1977-1983). Israel Historic Event Series cover commemorating the 1979 peace negotiations with Egypt, signed ("M Begin"), featuring a silk color portrait cachet of Begin making the "thumbs up" sign. the cover carries an Israeli postage stamp and postmark of Ben Gurion Station. Fine. Estimated Value $200 - 250. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 987		Ben-Gurion, David (1876-1973) One of the most influential figures in modern Zionism; founder of the State of Israel; first (1948-1952) and third prime minister (1955-1962) of Israel. Two ALsS, 1p each, 7½"x6" and 7¾"x5½", Hakirya and Tel Aviv, 1955 July 8 and 1964 Dec. 3. Both are very fine, with normal folds; the two are matted with a commemorative bank note bearing Ben-Gurion's likeness and issued by the American Israel Numismatic Association in 1988; framed to an overall size of 26¾"x22". Both letters have excellent content. The first, written as Minister of Defense on personal stationery to Yaakov Riftin, a member of the Knesset, says, in part: "You do not have permission to speak in the name of the Mapai [the political party which was dominant in Israeli politics until the mid 1960s, when it merged into the Alignment] voters. We live in a land in which the voter is definitely free to vote for whomever he wants….We have walked along this path from the beginning of the Zionist enterprise….I am certain that this path will be a blessing for both the workers and the people…." The second letter, to Mordechai Soskis, says in part: "The Party is dear to me….But the people and its existence depend on the purity of the State, and if I am to stand before these two things - I will not hesitate for one moment, and I will fight for the purity of the State…." Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 988		Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973) Letter to an Arab discussing the impending war with Egypt. Typed letter in Hebrew signed "D. Ben-Gurion," as Minister of Defense, one page, 7 7/8" x 6", May 14, 1955, on State of Israel letterhead, addressed "Dear Friend." He writes: "I have received your letter, and your loyalty is very precious to me. Following the coup d'état which was carried out by the present heads of Egypt, the Government which I headed welcomed the rebels against King Farouq, and I expressed my hope that the revolution would bring blessings to the Egyptian people, the Egyptian peasants, the Egyptian laborers, and would pave a new road of peace for itself. It is regrettable that the heads of Egypt have disappointed our hope, and the hope of the Egyptian people, as the heads of Egypt have repudiated their people and cast it down, and they are now seeking to embroil it in a war with Israel. I am certain and convinced that the Egyptian tyrant will pay a heavy price for his aggression." Fine. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 989		Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973) Letter to Abba Eban regarding Israel's need for nuclear weapons and American acceptance of this policy. Typed letter in Hebrew signed "D. Ben-Gurion," as Prime Minister, one page, 7 7/8" x 6 1/8", January 22, 1956, on State of Israel letterhead, addressed to Abba Eban, the Israeli Ambassador to the United States. Ben-Gurion writes: "I must note that I am rather pleased with your communiqués concerning the awakening of American public figures to our demands for defensive weapons, and with the waves of public sympathy and sup[port, which encompass broad and important circles in the United States, for the fulfillment of our just demands and for enabling the provision of defense guarantees to the State of Israel. Our demands for weapons are becoming more urgent from day to day, and I hope common sense and logic will prevail in the American administration …" Very Fine. Estimated Value $1,400 - 1,800. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $1,500
Lot 990		Dayan, Moshe (1915-1981) Dayan commanded the forces in the Jerusalem area during the War of Independence and led the 1956 invasion of the Sinai. Autograph letter signed "Moshe Dayan" in Hebrew, two separate pages, 7" x 5", Jerusalem, Israel, May 12, 1950, to the painter Mr. Ludwig Blum, thanking him for his kind gift. Dayan begins with: "I doubt that I can express in a few words my heartfelt thanks to you for your painting of Jerusalem that you gave me for my birthday." Overall in Fine condition. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 991		Dayan, Moshe (1915-1981) Highly important letter regarding hostile Arab terrorist movements. Typed letter signed "M. Dayan," in Hebrew, one page, 8¼" x 6½", 1969, to Knesset Member Avraham Verdiger (from the religious party Agudat Israel). Dayan replies to Verdiger's questions: "1) Estimation of 51 terrorist acts. It is not always possible to determine which movement is responsible to which action. 2) One dead and eight injured. 3) Eleven dead and nine injured. 4) The captives knew that only generally due to the very low educational level of the terrorists captured. Fine, except for two file holes in the right margin. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $504
Lot 992		Eban, Abba (1915-2002) Draft of a speech, probably delivered at the United Nations, in which Israe's Representative blames the Arab States for preventing peaceful supervision of the Holy Places in Jerusalem. Three pages, 8" x 6", separate sheets with letterhead of The Savoy-Plaza, New York City, with cross-outs and additions in Eban's handwriting, but not signed. Eban begins: "The record of the Arab Government in the Jerusalem question is as follows - They violently opposed the Statute of Jerusalem when it was first proposed by the U.N. and made brutal destructive war upon the City in cynical disregard of its sacred associations." Eban then writes "This assault caused the abandonment and irrevocable," then crosses the phrase out, replacing it with "and with heavy loss of life and damage to buildings old and new, religious and secular." Plus much more. In excellent condition. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 993		Israel's Declaration of Independence, First Printing. Israel's Provisional Government Official Bulletin No. 1 (14 May 1948), with the complete Declaration of Independence, 3 pages, 13 ½" x 8¼", undated. In Very Good condition, with some edge tears, minor foxing, and a few small holes. There is a 1¼" x 1½" repair near the top of the vertical fold. Fortunately, none of these problems affects the text. Very rare and a most historic document. At 4:00 pm on Friday, May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. His reading of Israel's Declaration of Independence was broadcast to Jews all over the country. Ben-Gurion became the first Prime Minister of the new state, which was quickly recognized by the United States and the USSR. It begins: "THE LAND OF ISRAEL was the birthplace of the Jerwish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was formed. Here they achieved independence and created a culture of national and universal significance. Here they wrote and gave the Bible to the world." It further states: "We offer peace and unity to all the neighboring states and their peoples, and invite them to cooperate with the independent Jewish nation for the common good of all." Estimated Value $3,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $4,560
Lot 994		Jabotinsky, Ze'ev (Vladimir) (1880-1940) Autographed letter signed "Z. Jabotinsky," in Hebrew, one page, 7" x 4½", August 6, 1920, Jerusalem. He writes to Mr. Gordon, asking " … Could you send me ASAP 'The Hebrew Grammar' (in Latin characters) that I gave you several months ago? I need the manuscript immediately. How are you, your father and sister feeling? Please don't think that I am angry, this is not so, and it will never be. Friendly greetings …" The book (38pp, 6½" x 4 3/4") that he requested, signed by Jabotinsky, is included. Fine. Estimated Value $2,500 - 3,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 995		Netanyahu, Benjamin (1949 -) Prime Minister of Israel from June 1996 to July 1999 as leader of the conservative Likud party; first Israeli prime minister to be born after the founding of the state of Israel. 4½" x 7" color photo of Netanyahu giving a speech, signed in English and Hebrew on the lower edge of the 5½" x 8¼" green mount, n.p., n.d. With COA from the Institute of Documentation in Israel. Estimated Value $50 - 75. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 996		Netanyahu, Benjamin. 8" x 12" color photograph signed in English and Hebrew, c. 1984, showing Netanyahu at a dinner with James A. Baker, who was President Reagan's Chief of Staff until 1985, when he became Secretary of the Treasury. Netanyahu.was Israeli ambassador to the United Nations from 1984 to 1988. With COA from the Institute of Documentation in Israel. Very good; crease at upper right. Estimated Value $50 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 997		Peres, Shimon (1923 -) 9th and current President of the state of Israel. 4½" x 7" color PS signed by Peres on the lower edge of the blue 5¾" x 8¼" mount. Peres and Yitzhak Rabin are pictured at a meeting with Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority, c. 1993. Peres, Rabin, and Arafat won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. Fine. With COA from the Institute of Documentation in Israel. Estimated Value $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 998		Rabin, Yitzhak (1922-1995) Rare signed speech given shortly after the Six Day War. Printed booklet: Speech of General Yitzhak Rabin, in Hebrew and Spanish, 20pp, 8½" x 5½", Magnes Press, Hebrew University, signed in Hebrew on the title page "Major General Y. Rabin" and dated January 28, 1968 by Rabin. Signed when Rabin was receiving an honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, after commanding the IDF in the Six Day War. Fine. Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $870
Lot 999		Szold, Henrietta (1860-1945) Letter to Mayer Sulzberger, President of the Jewish Publication Society, regarding a map of the Semitic World and maps of the Palestinian territory fom the future founder of Hadassah. Autographed letter signed "Henrietta Szold," two pages, 7" x 4½", April 16, 1896, Baltimore. She writes, in part: "Professor George Adam Smith … will be thinking about the matter of our maps, and before he leaves Baltimore … he will tell me what ones in his opinion are proper for the illustrations of (Heinrich) Graetz. Through his cartographer, Mr. Bartholomew of Edinburgh, he will furnish us with his map of the Semitic world and with the two Palestinian maps …" Very Fine. Estimated Value $900 - 1,100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 1000		*German Propaganda Book - Der Giftpilz.* Ein Stuermerbuch fuer Jung und Alt. Nuremberg: Verlag der Stürmer, 1938, 10½" x 8¼", 64pp. Pictorial covers over linen boards, which are worn; page 51/52 is present but separated and page 53/54 is missing; 17 full-page, vivid illustrations by the Nazi artist Fips, most with grotesque depictions of Jewish men. The book was published by Julius Streicher, who published propaganda in his newspapers ("Der Stuermer" and "Fraenkische Tageszeitung") and in books such as this one to incite the German people to hatred and persecution of the Jews and to what he hoped would be their extermination as a race. After the war, he was tried at Nuremberg, convicted of crimes against humanity and hanged on October 16, 1946. The Allies destroyed many copies of Der Giftpilz; consequently, it is rare today. Seventeen short stories present and reinforce, time after time, the idea that Jewish people are bad, and that good German children should hate them. An interesting sub-text is that children should "teach" their parents this awful truth ("I'm finding out that one can learn even from you children," a mother admits). Thematically, the book is organized around an anti-semitic attack on three fronts: physical appearance, religious beliefs, and moral values. In the first chapter, a young boy picks mushrooms with his mother, who explains to him that there are good and bad people, just as there are edible and poisonous mushrooms, that the Jews are a "poison" within Germany, the Devil in human form and that they pose a threat not only to German survival, but to the survival of the world. Some of the chapters have a decidedly pornographic slant, such as "What Hans and Else Experienced With a Stranger" and "Inge's Visit to A Jewish Doctor." Other chapters include: "How to Tell A Jew," "How a German Peasant was Driven from House and Farm," "How Jewish Traders Cheat," How Jews Torment Animals," and the last chapter: "Without Solving the Jewish Question No Salvation for Mankind." The image of the Jewish monster perpetrating misfortune is presented at the end of each episode in the form of a short poem, which capsulizes the specific immoral act allegedly committed by a Jew, connects all Jews to the Devil, and serves to warn the reader against the ever-present Jewish threat. Estimated Value $2,000 - 4,000. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold