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The Historama Alex Ben-Arieh P.O.Box 32128 Tel Aviv, Israel 61321 Tel/Fax: +972-3-546-1971 Mobile: +972-547-680-086 e-mail: alex@historama.com |
| Welcome to the Online History Shop! |
| We are an online mail-order dealership specializing Israeli, Jewish and world coins, stamps, banknotes, militaria and documents - including Judaica, Eretz Israel, the Holocaust and Bauhaus collectibles, memorabilia, art and artifacts. Our scope includes all types of original and authentic, rare and quality militaria (from Israel, Europe, etc.), philately, medals and numismatics; banknotes, paper money, tokens and exonumia; certificates, maps, books, posters; political, government and commercial documents; ephemera and postcards, photographs and other small related objects. Our shop offers online and downloadable pricelists and mailbid catalogues, with photographic accompaniment. Your satisfaction is guaranteed. We buy, sell, trade and accept consignments (free to you - with no obligation). We also offer research, evaluation and appraisal services, and will endeavor to publish information online in our areas of specialty. We also actively solicit your want-lists. Above all, we cherish history and strive to service the interests of collectors, enthusiasts and historians alike. Our offering includes something to suit every taste and budget. Thank you for visiting! | Also on This Page: How We Work News, Announcements & Highlights ![]() Make Historama your Home Page! Translate Historama to your Language 1 Translate Historama to your Language 2 |
| How We Work: |
| We are a full-service online mail-order
business: we maintain and update online fixed price-lists, which are also available for download, and will conduct one or two full-scale mailbid sales during the year, one in the Spring and another in the Fall.
With this website, we will publish periodical hardcopy price-lists and catalogues for online viewing or for downloading alongside our continually updated online sales list (which will include newly available merchandise not included in the original hardcopy lists). Photos of our merchandise will definitely be available online and we will endeavor to include them also in our downloadable price-lists as well. Our regular work hours are between 8am and 6pm Israel time during the week (Sundays - Thursdays) and unofficially on the weekends and some holidays too. However, we are contactable 24/7 via any means including our mobile phone; our answering machine or voice mail is always on and fax or e-mail is 'on' 24 hours a day. We check our messages and letters (electronic and post) every day. ORDERING: First and foremost, your satisfaction is guaranteed. If you are not completely satisfied with a purchase, just return the item/s in the condition and presentation in which you received it within a 14 day inspection period, and we'll give you a full refund minus postage and deposit charges. Ordering information is explained in full on our Terms & Conditions page. If you need any more information, please don't hesitate to contact us. As a general procedure, please quote the 7-digit "Item Code" of the item you're interested in. You may place an order by any of these means - phone, answering machine, fax, e-mail, post. To place an order or reserve items for purchase, please enclose payment as soon as possible. We will hold requested items for 7 days. Items ship out within 24 hours of clearance of payment and orders with payment will receive preference. Items may also be paid for in installments by arrangement - contact us for details. If you call and we don't pick up, please leave a message and we will get back to you. BUYING & GENERAL CONSIGNMENT: We are always looking to buy merchandise, down to books, postcards, papers, pictures, maps, tunic buttons, etc. - basically, anything of historical value. If in doubt, call us first - the worst we can say is 'no'. If you are thinking to disposing of individual items or whole collections, or are curious about whether we could use your material, please contact us. We also accept trades and consignments. Our consignment service is free - with no obligation to you - and we accept items year-round for sale at any time, although we are especially keen to feature as many items as possible for our seasonal mailbid sales. For more information, please visit our Terms & Conditions page. MAILBID SALES: We plan to hold mailbid sales each year, hopefully one in Spring and another in the Fall, and we will spare no expense in presenting to our customers an unparalleled selection of rare collectibles both from Israel and abroad. Our consignment deadlines for mailbid sales will be around March 1 and September 1 to allow for preparations. We are interested in any collectible items that you may be considering to dispose of. SUBSCRIPTIONS: If you are interested in receiving our pricelists, or have a friend who would be interested in one, please send us his e-mail or mailing address and we will post him a copy of our latest list. WANT LISTS: If you do not see what you're looking for, don't despair. We have a permanent backlog of many other items that have not been added to our price-lists for any number of reasons, and we are constantly processing newly received and procured merchandise. Our current and potential offerings reflect our resourcefulness, and through Want Lists we will be able to connect you with the merchandise you want, free of obligation. When sending us your 'want-lists', please be as specific as possible regarding type, condition, date, price. You may send us your lists by phone, fax, e-mail, or post and we'll get right on it. Contact us here. FULL SERVICE: And for those who do have what they want, or are trying to obtain it, we offer professional grading and appraisal services for private and insurance-related purposes. We're also always at your disposal for questions and issues pertaining to collecting, grading, historical reseach and item identification. We will also publish specialty guides on specific areas of collection which may assist you, and will offer them in the book section of our price lists. Happy hunting, and be in touch! Visit this page to see news and accouncements on
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ONLINE SHOP & MAILBID SALE |
ISRAELI MUSIC & LYRICS ONLINE |
ISRAELI MILITARIA PRIMER |
ISRAELI STAMP RESOURCES |
THE BAUHAUS PAGE |
ONLINE GALLERY |
MAIN RESOURCES INDEX |
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18 Oct: The launch time for the Mailbid Sale will be set to mid-2008. In the meantime, more details are now available: Among the many highlights there is high-pedigree philately, originally acquired through Ya'akov Tzachor and Josef Wallach (among others) and many pieces with certifications by Hans Georg Muentz: Eretz Israel 1948 interim-period mail; 19th Century Rothschild family letters; Doar Ivri, EEF "Blues" and Palestine overprint specialties; world Judaic, Holocaust, Ghetto, camp, POW and military mail; specialized world stamps including the Penny Black and a red-brown block; 1940's Zionist underground internee mail; 1948 French Consulate in Jerusalem mail; rare American covers and US stamps from the 19th Century; Free French colonial post, and more. Separately, I'm also receiving collections of Palestine Mandate coins, Israeli medals, American gold and world silver coins - and Palestine and world banknotes... AND Moshe Dayan's military jacket. Exciting items, with more to come. Press this linked-text to reach the new mailbid sale main page. 14 May: *HAPPY 60th ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE DAY!!* There was no where else here to shout this. Technically the Jewish date was last Friday but everyone recalls the 14th of May. 17 May: it took 2 years of planning and gathering materials but I finally uploaded an interesting piece on Israel's 1st independence day (with original audio recordings!). More old IDF pins, an original 'Kova gerev' sock hat and other items will come in over the next few days. Shortly too I'll have a real 'Noter' (Hebrew constable) uniform of the Palestine Police with Kolpak hat on display in the gallery. 3 May: With Israel's 60th Independence day approching (and with the mailbid a little behind schedule due to recent family issues), I'm honored to present Moshe Dayan's military jacket in the online shop!! The jacket is offered for sale now at a fixed price, ahead of the mailbid, and if available by the mailbid's launch date it will also be included in that pricelist. 13 May: some high grade IDF emblems are coming into the shop today and tomorrow, including the early Palmach emblem pin and the early High Command ("Matkal") pin. 27 Jan: The store looks quiet because behind the scenes I'm preparing the mailbid materials, but some new items will be in shortly. As I work and listen to music it's occurred to me I'm lacking more Israeli female music online (4 out of 104 songs!), so I've added a new "contemporary female" section now with good songs by Rona Kenan, Metropolin and Sharon Haziz. More good ones to come soon. 9 Nov: Making up for lost time, I'll be adding today several songs by Ivri Lider, Yehuda Poliker, Arik Einstein, Ehud Banai, Mashina and others to the music room; I don't know how I didn't think of this sooner, but I've also started adding links to youtube music videos for many of the songs there. I had the opportunity now to see Ehud Banai and Mashina (fronted by Ehud's cousin, Yuval) perform together at the Roman ampitheater in Caesaria - simply amazing. For fans, here is their interview together in Hebrew (interested visitors can ask me to translate it). It was like seeing the kings of Israeli rock and their legendary supporting bands together on one stage. Some photos from the concert: 6 Oct: Happy Rosh Ha'Shana and Chagim! It's been a several weeks since my last update, but the time was spent productively and very good things are in the offing: Historama's fall mailbid sale will take place towards the end of the year - and there will be hundreds of high grade items offered. Further details will be published shortly, and if you have any collectible items you'd like to sell contact me to have them included in this year's mailbid (consigning is free, no strings attached). I've accumulated some excellent Israeli militaria items and these will also enter the shop shortly, and more songs will be added to the music room (if you have any requests, please let me know). No real interesting articles (in my opinion) appeared in our press this summer, so I haven't added new translated articles to the site... but maybe a piece on Yigal Allon's interviews to a researcher will get added. The chatboard will also be revamped - it gets hit by spammers and needs some "color" too. That's a New Year's resolution. I'd also like to take a moment to thank those who have been kind enough to pass word about this site onto friends and others. Recently I've received a surge of inquiries - and that in spite of my few recent updates, so I imagine word-of-mouth helped out and I'm very appreciative of it. 6 July: a lovely pair of Palestine Police Gendarmerie breeches are now in the shop along with a nice Italian M-15 helmet. 17 July: I've added classic Israeli rock songs by Shlomo Artzi ("After All You're a Song"), Ehud Banai ("Your Time has Passed"), and a scarce Ha'Gashash Ha'Khiver piece ("Let Us Rest our Heads on a Dune") to the Israeli music room. 15 June: A rare Israeli paratrooper ("tzankhanim") used British para helmet is now in the shop, with more good items due in over the weekend. An illuminating article on Israel's economy from 1967 and the Six Day War period to 2007 is now posted here. 25 Mar: In the coming days I'll start publishing (in the Online Gallery section) ongoing translations of a 200+ page remarkable manifesto of the Zionist Irgun / Etzel underground movement, published around 1946 during the Hebrew Revolt in Palestine. This is a rare document so far unencountered in standard literature of the Israeli pre-State period. 13 Dec: More quality samples of early IDF uniforms are now in the shop, and I've made some further updates to the Israeli militaria primer page. And after searching for a year and a half I finally got ahold of a certain song for the online jukebox that I'd been searching hard for: Shalom Hanoch & Shlomo Artzi's "I See You" (àðé øåàä àåúê) single! More items in the shop shortly... An early draft of a page on Israeli flags is also in the stages of completion. Dec. 13: I've added pictures of Jerusalem architecture to the page on Bauhaus and Israeli architecture. More store items due in shortly... |
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Militaria: in the area of Israeli military uniforms and headwear we have both an original American-made khaki 'hitelmacher' hat (1947-48) of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) as well as green denim Israeli versions, locally made Eretz Israel "Haga" and "Magen David Adom" steel helmets, early 1948-50's Israeli Airforce and Intelligence Corps ("Aman") hats. In the area of Arab militaria, we have an Arab Legion black spiked helmet, the Arab Legion helmet/Keffiyeh "al Jeish al Arabi" badge and shoulder tag, a Syrian military hat and Egyptian/UAE badges. We carry early Israeli army and military uniforms, including Israeli made military drill shirts, battle-dress pants and tunics, Palestine police pants and breeches. We also have an American WW I Brodie helmet from the 3rd Division and a Norwegian Free Forces helmet. In the area of military badges, patches and emblems we have the Menorah insignia cap badge of the Jewish Legion/Judean Battalion, 1917-19, a rare hat badge of the Palestine Regiment / Jewish Brigade, the rare Palestine Volunteer Force hat badge, the rare 1948 small Palmach emblem badge pin, early Israeli Army (IDF) General Staff ("Matkal") metal badges and the Israel Air Force metal pilot's wings badge. We have a selection of Irgun/Eztel, Lechi and Haganah insignia, badges and training manuals. From World War II militria we have a Norwegian Legion 'Frontkjemper' (Front Fighters) badge in zinc, and a Spanish Blue Division medal. There is a selection of quality original Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS foreign volunteer armshields: from the Kaminski Brigade (RONA), Frikorps (Freikorps) Danmark, Corps Franc Legion - Sturmbrigade Wallonie, Legion Flandern Langemarck, the Albanian Skanderbeg division, the Croatian Legion, the Latvian Legion, Finnish Volunteer Battalion, and the Russian ROA. We also have a pitch helmet shield of the Indian 'Azad Hind' Legion. We also have a Belgian 'Korea-Battalion' sleeve patch and a bronze field cap badge of the free 1st Battalion Belgian Fusiliers, plus patches of the British Army on the Rhine (BAOR) and Desert Rats. |
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Numismatics: We have a series of rare high-grade Israeli aluminum 25 Mils coins from 1948 and 1949, in UNC, uniface, open-, closed and half links. We have zinc Allied occupation coins from Germany, and Norwegian wartime occupation iron and zinc coins from 1945 plus iron 2- and 5-Ore pieces from World War 1. There are also several American civil war tokens and a Lodz (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto 5 Mark coin. |
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Philatelics: We have a set of 3 mint Israeli Doar Ivri high-value Mils from 1948 and a set of 5 Israeli postage due Doar Ivri issue from 1948. There are several franked 'Minhelet Ha'am' covers with JNF labels. We have a block of 4 Confederate States of America 10-Cent stamps (CSA #12) and mint French Volunteer Legion (LVF) stamp labels. |
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Bank Notes: We have a 100 Mils Va'ad Tel Aviv (municipality) paper currency note from 1948 and a 1 Bishlik token from Ottoman Palestine, 1914. We also have a 25-Ore Danish Brigade in Germany; a Confederate States of America note; and paper money and Allied occupation money for Germany. |
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Eretz Israel & Ephemera: We have a rare 'Flowers of the Holy Land' Eretz Israel memorabilia booklet from the 1920s. We also have an Israeli identity card (1949), early Israeli 'tzena' austerity-period ration coupon books, and an early Israeli immigration document, 1948. There is a lovely pricelist of foodstuffs from the 'tzena' too. We have photographs and postcards of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem and Bauhaus buildings from the 1900s-50s. We have a set of Jewish National Fund letters from Kovno, 1924. We have sets of Israeli tobacciana, drink labels, and childrens collector cards, and Israeli olivewood and mother of pearl souvenirs from the early 20th Century. We also have a selection of ancient (1500s) and antique maps of Palestine and the Holyland, including a colored Sebastian Munster. There is a set of Hungarian Jewish labor brigade Holocaust mail and a rare Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Police (Judischer Ordnungsdienst) badge. |
| Judaica: We have a range of quality antique printed and hand-written Jewish blessings and Judaic amulets (like "Shmira La'yeled") on paper and parchment - both Ashkenazi and Sephardic - from Morocco, North Africa and Eastern Europe, as well as hand-written Jewish religious scrolls (like Kohelet / Ecclesiastes), and old and ancient printed prayer books (like Hagadah) and Shvitis; our shelves are stocked with antique Jewish literature, book works by Jewish authors and other old publications on Judaism. We also offer an array of antique Jewish religious objects in wood, metal and silver, including Menorahs (candelabras), Mezzuzot, and 'rimonim' (Torah finials). We also offer a broad range of antique Jewish and Judaic artwork and hand-craft, including Judaic woodcuts, Chassidic artwork, ceramic work and oilpaintings and lithographs by Jewish and Israeli artists. Our shop also offers a range of Jewish and Judaic numismatic, medallic and philatelic memorabilia, as well as cloth, documentary and paper ephemera judaica collectibles - from sources like European-Jewish scouting movements, Jewish charities in Eretz Israel-Palestine and Jewish-Zionist fundraisers. |
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