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JUDAIC STAMPS, LABELS, PHILATELY and EPHEMERA:
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Germany, "Sana-Gesellschaft" (Sana Company) of Kleve Kosher "Tomor" margarine labels, circa. 1904: 4 different collector-promotional labels for the firm's "Tomor Calendar"; all Mint Hinged. Labels depict various Jewish scenes - Sabbath, wiseman, etc. - with German subtitles.
Sana's parent company was the Van den Bergh Margarine Works, founded by Simon Van den Bergh (1819-1907), a Dutch industrialist and an observant Jew; his business manager, John Manger, established the Sana Company around 1900 as an independent factory exclusively for Kosher products, of which the "Tomor" brand was one of them. The Van den Bergh works eventually merged with other firms including the Lever Brothers to form the present-day Unilever company, though the "Tomor" brand also remains known to this day.
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Item Code: 0130774 Price: $75
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Israeli-related classical music labels (x4), 2 mint never hinged, 1 mint hinged, 1 used and cancelled, circa. 1960s: x2 for Smetana's "Moldau" (modern research shows that Israel's national anthem, "Hatikva" is not based on the Moldau, but rather the Moldau is based on the same sources from which "Hatikva" was written); x2 for Carl Maria von Weber's "Invitation to the Dance" (one of which appears to be priced in Israeli Lira).
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Item Code: 0130775 Price: $20
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United States, "American League for a Free Palestine" labels by Arthur Szyk, 1946: 5 different colored labels depicting a pilgrim ship of 1620 (in 1620 the Dutch granted civil equality to all residents of Recife, Brazil, opening the way to Jewish settlement in America) to a [Jewish] refugee ship of 1946; 4 mint never hinged + 1 mint but disturbed gum.
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Item Code: 0130776 Price: $50
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Netherlands, [Nazi-hunter] Simon Wiesenthal 70th Birthday philatelic souvenir sheet, 1978: produced by the Wiesenthal Foundation Fund in Holland with a value of 10 Florins (though with disclaimer beneath "not valid for postage purposes"), and legend beneath "The Murderers are Among Us"; mint never hinged.
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Item Code: 0130777 Price: $25
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Denmark, "Samvirket Danmark-Israel" (SDI - Denmark-Israel Association) political label, 1978: label in Hebrew, Danish, English and Arabic with mosaic and legend "For Israel's Right to Peace and Security" on reverse of airmailed cover (fine) from Lokken, Denmark to Beersheva; possibly issued around the time of Israel's "Litani Campaign" into Southern Lebanon.
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Item Code: 0130778 Price: $20
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Russia-Jewish Republic (Birobidzhan), World Wildlife Federation pre-cancelled souvenir sheet, 1998: 12 stamps (4 different animal images) with margins and tabs; unmounted, full gum.
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Item Code: 0130779 Price: $20
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Germany, Reich League of Jewish War Veterans ("Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten") welfare stamp for Jewish war victims, 1937: label is value of 10 Pfennig on reverse of a franked business cover (fine) mailed from Nordhausen to Bat Galim in Palestine.
The RFJ was founded in 1919 partly as an expression against the pervading feeling that Jews were responsible for Germany's defeat in World War I. Though anti-Zionist and conservatively oriented towards assimilation and loyalty to the German establishment, its activities were outlawed in 1936 and the league banned in 1938. Tellingly, there is no return address on the cover.
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Item Code: 0130780 Price: $30
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Germany, children of Jewish soldiers welfare fund labels, circa. 1915-1930: x1 issued by "Jüdischer Kinder Unterstützungs Verein" (Jkuv - Jewish Poor Childrens Support) for needy children of enlisted Jewish soldiers (unused? no gum) + x2 used Reichsbund Jüdischer Frontsoldaten (RJF) labels with hand-written values, probably post-inflation period (i.e. late 1920's).
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Item Code: 0130781 Price: $30
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Austria / France / United States, "Harand Movement" philo-Semitic anti-racist labels, 1930s: 11 labels in German, French and English highlighting Jewish personalities, contributions and achivements, some specifically in response to the anti-Semitic exhibition "The Eternal Jew" (1937); x7 mint never hinged, x1 mint hinged with disturbed gum, x1 mint with disturbed gum, x2 used(?) no gum.
Irene Harand (1900-1975) founded the "Movement against Anti-Semitism, Racial Hatred and Glorification of War" in 1933 and published a response to Hitler's "Mein Kampf" ("My Struggle") entitled "Sein Kampf" ("His Struggle"); she was recognized as "Rightous Among the Nations" by Israel in 1969.
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Item Code: 0130783 Price: $80
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Austria, "Harand Movement" philo-Semitic labels "in response to the Munich Exhibition 'The Eternal Jew'", showcasing Jewish personalities, circa. 1937: 1 strip of 3 labels + 1 strip of 2 labels (possibly originally all connected as one vertical strip) - 5 different figures (all mint never hinged; one with fold marks).
The "Eternal Jew" ("Der Ewige Jude") was an exhibition of "degenerate art" (i.e. non Aryan) which opened at Library of the German Museum in Munich on November 8, 1937, and featured anti-Semitic perspectives of Jews and Jewry in world affairs; in 1940 it was produced as a dramatic "documentary" movie.
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Item Code: 0130784 Price: $60
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United States, "The Blue Card" Holocaust survivors' assistance fund stamp booklet, 1951: booklet containing pane of 4 mint never hinged stamps depicting Synagogues in Frankurt, Berlin, Prague and Rhode Island, and a calendar of key Jewish holidays for 1951-1952 (with full gum).
"The Blue Card" charity, founded in Germany in 1934 (and later relocated to the United States) is unique in that it is the only American charity which gives financial assistance to Holocaust victims and survivors: the organization earned its name from the blue cards that it issued - every time a donation was made, a stamp was put on the card to keep a record of the contribution.
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Item Code: 0130785 Price: $25
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United States, "Kollel America - Tipheret Jerusalem" charity stamp pane, 1943 (Mosbaugh # 132.5): mint never hinged pane (Fine) of 10x 10-cent stamps in light-blue, in English and Hebraicized Yiddish, depicting portraits (alternately) of the founder Rabbi Mandelstam and the president, Rabbi Margaliot.
A "Kollel" is a Jewish-religious seminary, similar to a "Yeshiva", but comprised of married male students; Kollels pay a monthly stipend to their members. This one is the American branch of a larger charity called the "Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess" (Rabbi Meir "master of the miracle", of the 2nd Century) charity: the parent body was founded by Rabbi Mandelstam in 1830 in Galicia to support religious students from the region studying in Jerusalem; in similar terminology to other Jewish or Zionist fundraising initiatives, donations here were called "Shekel Kadosh" (Holy Shekels). The German invasion of eastern Europe in the Second World War cut off the funding for the affiliated religious students in Palestine and affected their welfare, prompting greater fund-raising from Canada and the United States.
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Item Code: 0130786 Price: $50
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United States, "United Public Kitchen & Immigrant Sheltering Home" in Jerusalem 'Matzoh Fund' 50-cent charity stamp booklet, circa. 1948-1950: mono-tone booklet of 5 sheets of x2 unperforated labels (mint never hinged); on reverse appeals in [Hebraicized] Yiddish, Hebrew and English to assist in feeding "immigrants to Israel". Issued for the Passover holiday (circa. April) and so called the "Matzoh fund". Judging by the "Canaanite" figures in the image, the drive may have been initiated by the massive immigration wave of Yemenite Jews, from 1949-1952.
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Item Code: 0130787 Price: $50
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United States, "Great Charity Institutions of Jerusalem" Matzoh Fund 25-cent charity stamp booklet, 1949: mono-tone booklet of 10 sheets of x4 unperforated (and ungummed) labels; on reverse an official Israeli confirmation that this religious charity along with two others operates under its supervision.
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Item Code: 0130788 Price: $60
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United States, "United Charity Inst[itutions] of Jerusalem" Matzoh fund 5-cent charity stamp strip, circa. early-mid 1940's: vertical strip of 5 stamps, mint never hinged, but creased, and with perforations on 3-sides + gutters on top and bottom; in English and Hebraicized Yiddish.
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Item Code: 0130789 Price: $30
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Argentina / United States, "Yidisher Wissenschaftlekher Institut" (YIVO) assistance fund 2-cent(?) stamps, circa. 1940: block of x4 mint never hinged stamps in purple with Hebraicized Yiddish; block perforated on only 2 sides.
The Yiddish Scientific Institute was founded in Vilna in 1925 as an academic institution dedicated to the study of Yiddish and East European Jewish culture; it chose Yiddish as its language of operation as a "realistic" expression of Jewish nationalism, over the Hebrew of Zionist Jewish nationalism (or "assimilationist" German or Russian). YIVO was the only Jewish pre-Holocaust organization to successfully relocate from Europe to the United States during the Second World War (in 1940), and it opened main branches in New York and Buenos Aires. As these stamps depicts both North and South American it is unclear to which branch they are from. Scarce.
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Item Code: 0130790 Price: $50
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United States, Jewish anti-Nazi "Boycott Hitler" protest labels, circa. early-mid-1930's: block of x4 two-tone mint never hinged labels; block is perforated on 2-sides. Bears targetted but contradictory (if naïve) message to "Boycott Hitler" and "not Germany", but also exhorts "Nazi Products [i.e. German] not wanted!". Probably issued between 1933-1936 as a counter-protest to German boycotts of Jewish businesses and the imposition of the "Nuremburg Laws" which stripped Jews of their civil rights (1935).
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Item Code: 0130791 Price: $30
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United States, "League for Religious Labor in Palestine" 5-cent fundraising voucher, 1943; designed by American-Jewish artist Sol Nodel (artist marked design): depicts Jewish religious symbols against backdrop of Eretz-Israel landscape (with "tower and stockade" settlement).
The League was founded in February 1941 by Isaac Rivkind (who also helped establish the American branch of YIVO) to promote the ideals of religious labor in Palestine among the American Jewish community and to give moral and financial assistance to the religious labor movement in Palestine; the organization existed also after the establishment of Israel. Sol Nodel (1912-1976) executed etchings as well as stained-glass pieces and was the brother of Rabbi Julius Nodel (of Congregation Shaare Emeth in Missouri).
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Item Code: 0130792 Price: $40
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United States, "Zionist Organization of America" Palestine land development promotional stamps, circa. 1948-50: block of x6 undenominated labels, mint never hinged; block if perforated on two sides; one stamp is torn at left corner.
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Item Code: 0130793 Price: $20
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United States, "Hebrew Month" labels (x12), various dates from 1950's-1960's and denominated either as 5 Cents (x5) or 10 Cents (x7): depicting various Jewish and Israeli historical, religious and literary figures; some issued as part of topical series (eg. "Heroes of the Holocaust"); some issued by the Hebrew Federation ("Histadrut Ivrit"); x2 mint never hinged, all others without gum (some hinged); a few with foxing marks.
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Item Code: 0130794 Price: $30
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United States/Canada, Hebrew Federation ("Histadrut Ivrit") of America and Hebrew Cultural Fund ("Keren HaTarbut HaIvrit") of Canada 'Hebrew Month' 5 Cent stamp booklet, 1955: two-toned booklet with 3 pages of x6 labels (mint never hinged), depicting Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki ("Rashi").
These labels were used to collect funds in order to promote awareness of the Hebrew language and culture in North America: students who contributed $1.50 or more, or sold these stamp booklets would receive a Federation membership card and pin, as well as books in Hebrew and English during the year. The Histadrut Ivrit existed from 1916 to 2005, when it closed due to financial difficulties.
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Item Code: 0130795 Price: $40
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United States, Hebrew Federation ("Histadruth Ivrith") 'Hebrew Day and Week' fundraising stamp booklet, circa. 1940's: booklet with 5 pages of x4 mint never hinged stamps denominated in 5 Cents, depicting religious father and son, with legend "Fathers and Sons Join Together for Hebrew Work" (in a religious context, "work" in Hebrew also means to "serve" G-d).
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Item Code: 0130796 Price: $50
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United States, American-Zionist and Jewish organizations' fundraising and political awareness stamps, 1940's-1980's: x14 labels from various organizations, including the JDC (American-Jewish Joint Distribution Committee), the United Jewish Appeal, the Zionist Organization of America and the Jewish War Veterans of American organization; x5 mint never hinged (including x4 in a strip), x2 mint hinged, x5 ungummed (used?), x1 used and cancelled, x1 used. Several from 1948 (pre-Independence) and an Israel Bonds label designed by Arthur Szyk.
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Item Code: 0130797 Price: $60
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United States, "Union of American Hebrew Congregations" religious awareness labels, circa. 1950's: x7 labels (mint hinged) depicting scenes of traditional Jewish rituals with slogans encouraging the continuation of these traditions. The Union was founded in 1873 by Rabbi Isaac Wise and comprises mostly the Jewish reform movement in America.
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Item Code: 0130798 Price: $25
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United States, various Jewish charity labels (x5, all mint never hinged), circa. 1930's-1950's: "United Public Kitchen in Jerusalem" 50 Cent Matzoh Fund; "Great Free Kitchen in Jerusalem" 50 Cent [Matzoh Fund] (2 types); "Kollel America" 25 Cent label; "Holiday Emergency Fund for the Great Charity 'Chaye Olam' Institutions" of Jerusalem 5 Cent stamp.
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Item Code: 0130799 Price: $40
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United States, American-Jewish institutional labels, circa. pre-World War I: "National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives" in Denver, Colorado (mint hinged) and $2 "Jewish Children's Home" stamp (partial gum, used?).
The Jewish Hospital was founded by a female Jewish philanthropist (also a co-founder of the American "United Way" organization) and a Rabbi in 1899 as a free non-sectarian institution to treat tuberculosis; up until the 1950's it was partially funded by the Jewish Bnai Brith organization, and is now known as the National Jewish Hospital.
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Item Code: 0130800 Price: $50
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United States, Yiddish-Jewish cultual fund labels, circa. 1930's-1940's: set of two 1-cent stamps commemorating the birth of "Mendele" - the Yiddish and Hebrew writer Shalom Yaakov Abramovich (also known as "Mendele the Book-seller"), mint never hinged; x1 50-cent label for the Yiddish book fund, mint never hinged.
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Item Code: 0130801 Price: $30
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Poland/Germany, Jewish Orphanage in Rybnik [in Upper Silesia] seal, circa. 1890's: red and black embossed seal depicting the orphagane building, with legend in German "Israelitisches Waisenhaus Rybnik"; mint never hinged, with full gum.
The orphanage was established in 1893 by the Jewish Community of Rybnik (and located on 27 Powstańców Śląskich Street); in 1922 the building was taken over by the Jewish community of Katowice, which in turn sold it to the Silesian Chamber of Agriculture in 1927; after the Second World War the building housed Karol and Antoni Szafranek National Primary and Secondary Music School; and in 2007 the building was dismantled.
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Item Code: 0130802 Price: $200
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Poland, political/Holocaust-era labels (x5): strip of 3 stamps depicting Jewish(?) figure on top of Swastika and bloody knives around, with legend in Polish "Boycott Products of Hitlerite Germany" (Bojkotujemy Towary Hitlerowskich Niemiec), used, with some damage to the perforations; Holocaust-era label with yellow Star of David bearing the word "Jude" and Hebrew legend below "Remember what was wrought by Amalek", creased but with gum on reverse; Polish "Solidarity" [Trade Union] Movement underground 'stamp' (1988) denominated for 100 Zloties and issued by the "Copper Basin" chapter, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943 ("Powstanie w Getcie Warszawskim"), mint never hinged (ungummed).
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Item Code: 0130803 Price: $75
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United States/Palestine, Rabbi Avraham Yitzhak HaCohen Kook commemorative stamps (x6), circa. 1934-35: two Palestinian-made colored posthumous (ref. Hebrew legend) stamps commemorating the Rabbi, mint never hinged; and a block of 4 stamps demoninated in 10 cents and dated "Elul 5695" (eg. August-September 1934), mint never hinged but folded previously along the perforations.
Rabbi Kook (1865-1935) was a reknown scholar of the Torah, a leading figure of the religious-Zionist movement, promoted outreach to secular Jews and became the first Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of the Palestine Mandate.
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Item Code: 0130804 Price: $30
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Great Britain, Jewish thematic philately (x4): x2 block with gutter undenominated labels for the "Festival of British Jewry" (19 March 1985), mint never hinged (but previously folded along the horizontal perforation) - noted the apparent upside-down date; x2 "Airmail to Israel" 22 pence and "4/6" labels issued during the 1971 British postal strike (mint never hinged; bearing Israel stamp Bale #405 from 1968, commemorating 50th anniversary of scouting in Israel).
The British postal strike took place in January 1971 and lasted 10 weeks, during which time numerous private posts and courier services operated with the permission of the British Post Office - the first time that it voluntarily suspended its monopoly over the transport of mail.
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Item Code: 0130805 Price: $35
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United States, wartime American-Jewish relief organization stamps (x4): x2 undenominated labels by Arthur Szyk for the "American Federation for Polish Jews" (circa. 1943) - one mint, never hinged (lithograph by American Bank Note Company), and one mint hinged; x1 1-cent stamp for the "Chicago Jewish Relief Committee", 1915, no gum (used?); x1 10-cent brown label for the "Central Committee for the Relief of Jews", 1914, used.
The "American Federation for Polish Jews" was originally founded in 1908 to unite American Jews of Polish origin and to help Jews in Poland; the "Chicago Jewish Relief Committee for War Sufferers" was founded in 1914, led by prominent Reform Jews, and raised millions of Dollars in aid - particularly through the "Ten Million Dollar Fund" - over the course of a decade for East European Jews; the "American Jewish Relief Committee" and the associated "Central Committee for the Relief of Jews" were two forerunners of the better known "American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee", which absorbed these organizations in 1914.
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Item Code: 0130806 Price: $50
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South Africa/Italy/Netherlands/USA, private post issues (x4): commercial airmail cover ex. South Africa to Jerusalem (1968) with "Southern Africa Magen David Adom" red label; franked philatelic airmail cover ex. Naples to Rehovot (Israel), May 2000, with "Amici Della Filpa" label and "STAMPE" cachet; franked philatelic cover ex. Hengelo to Amersfoort (Holland), May 1978, on special "Nederland-Israel Philatelie" stationary tied to event label (25th anniversary of Netherlands-Israeli philately) and event cachet (x2); franked philatelic airmail first day cover (1971 - Richard Byrd) ex. Cedarhurst (NY) to Rehovot (Israel), Oct. 1994 with x2 different "Jewish War Veterans" labels.
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Item Code: 0130807 Price: $30
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Germany, Jewish Community of Berlin ("Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin") restoration fund stamps ("spenden marke"), 1949: set of 10 different denominated stamps depicting Synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht (Nov. 1938), issued by the community to raise funds for their restoration; all ungummed (used?) - x1 lightly cancelled (red 2 Mark, Munchener Str 57 Synagogue), x1 with small tear at top (brown 0.50 Mark Ryhestrasse 53 Synagogue). Sets of 10 of these stamps were issued in decorative souvenir booklets for the fundraiser in 1949; although the stamps have a period East German appearance, the issuing Community was based in West Berlin.
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Item Code: 0130809 Price: $35
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Germany, Jewish Community of Berlin ("Jüdische Gemeinde zu Berlin") restoration fund stamp ("spenden marke") commemorative booklet, 1968: reprinted set of x10 (1949) different denominated stamps depicting Synagogues destroyed during Kristallnacht (Nov. 1938); mounted in commemorative booklet marking the 30th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the ongoing restoration of those Synagogues; with photograph of the Community center (opened in 1959) on reverse. Unlike the original 1949 issue, the stamps used here have a coarser, less distinct visual impression.
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Item Code: 0130817 Price: $35
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ZIONIST STAMPS, LABELS, PHILATELY and EPHEMERA:
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