Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art | Page 22

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art

May 12, 2026

Prices Realized

Displaying 253 - 264 of 277

Pages

Lot 253 Siddur in Decorated Binding – Italy, 19th Century

Siddur in decorated binding. Vienna (Austria-Hungary) and Italy, 19th century.

Low-grade silver, repoussé; white

Download picture

Siddur in Decorated Binding – Italy, 19th Century

3 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $500

Sold for: $2,125

Including buyer's premium

Siddur in decorated binding. Vienna (Austria-Hungary) and Italy, 19th century.

Low-grade silver, repoussé; white metal, cast; print on paper.

Siddur, in a leather binding, with nearly identical decorations on both sides. With vegetal-patterned frame, and asymmetrical cartouche at center, surmounted by large, ornate crown. The initials "I.V.V" appear in relief on the cartouche on the back binding.

Book: Year-round siddur, in the Polish, Bohemian, Moravian and Hungarian rite. Vienna: Anton Schmidt, [1811]. 226 leaves. 8.5 cm. Overall good condition. Gilt book block edges. Wear and stains to margins of some leaves. Handwritten notations by several different writers on front flyleaf.

Height of binding: 8.5 cm. Width: 6 cm. Thickness: 2.5 cm. Good condition. Minor fractures and warping. Buckles not silver.

Category

Artistically Decorated Bindings

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 254 Maamadot in Pocket Format – Elaborate Silver Binding – Venice, 18th Century

Order of Maamadot in silver binding. Venice, Italy, first half of 18th century.

Silver, repoussé, engraved and so

Download picture

Maamadot in Pocket Format – Elaborate Silver Binding – Venice, 18th Century

8 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $3,000

Sold for: $4,000

Including buyer's premium

Order of Maamadot in silver binding. Venice, Italy, first half of 18th century.

Silver, repoussé, engraved and soldered (Venice hallmark [Lion of St. Mark], assayer's mark "M.P" and maker's mark "C.L.", for Carlo Lipari, active 1712-1740, or Carlo Lonigi, active 1720-1740); coiled silver thread; print on paper.

Elaborate binding dating to the first half of the 18th century, decorated identically on both sides, with rich vegetal patterns in rococo style, and a central cartouche topped by a crown, in high relief. Family coat of arms in the cartouche on the front binding (two six-pointed stars separated by a diagonal line), and initials "L.G.S." in cartouche on back.

The book: [Roman-rite siddur]. Part II only:
Maamadot. [Venice: Bragadin] 1719. Maamadot printed with divisional title page. Year in colophon. [229], 230-336 leaves, 1.5 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and wear. Slight tears, professionally restored. Somewhat close trimming of some margins. New parchment binding, with original endpapers and blank leaves bound at end.

Height of binding: 11 cm. Width: 6.5 cm. Thickness: 2.5 cm. Good condition. Minor warping. Clasps may be non-original.

Category

Artistically Decorated Bindings

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 255 Decorated Silver Binding – William Comyns & Sons – London, 1898

Siddur in decorated silver binding. London, 1898.

Silver, cast, stamped, pierced, and cut (fully marked with English mar

Download picture

Decorated Silver Binding – William Comyns & Sons – London, 1898

5 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $250

Sold for: $1,375

Including buyer's premium

Siddur in decorated silver binding. London, 1898.

Silver, cast, stamped, pierced, and cut (fully marked with English marks, including year mark "C" = 1898, and maker’s mark, "WC" = William Comyns & Sons); print on paper.

Siddur, bound in a small silver binding, with symmetrical and identical decorations on both sides, with vegetal patterns, in openwork (numerous openings). With plain, blank central cartouche, and with infant angels (putti) as corner ornaments.

Book: Beit Tefillah Sephardic-rite siddur. Livorno: Eliyahu ben Amouzag & Sons, [1905]. 208 leaves, 9.5 cm. Overall good condition. Notations in pen, and a pasted note. Edges of several leaves reinforced with paper. Original leather binding. Book block edges painted red.

Height of binding: 10.5 cm. Width: 8 cm. Thickness: 3.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.

Category

Artistically Decorated Bindings

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 256 Silver Chanukah Lamp Produced by Vincenz Czokally – Vienna, 19th Century

Chanukah lamp. Vienna, 1866-1890.

Silver, repoussé, embossed and engraved (marked with Austro-Hungarian standard

Download picture

Silver Chanukah Lamp Produced by Vincenz Czokally – Vienna, 19th Century

4 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $600

Sold for: $2,250

Including buyer's premium

Chanukah lamp. Vienna, 1866-1890.

Silver, repoussé, embossed and engraved (marked with Austro-Hungarian standard mark, in use from 1866, Viennese standard mark "A", and maker's mark "VC" = Vincenz Czokally, active 1860-1890).

Small, high-quality lamp. Crown decoration at top of back side, and a pair of erect lions holding the Tablets of the Law (high relief) at center. Two large floral decorations at edges. Row of oil fonts on raised platform at front, with recesses for oil dripping. Shamash (removable), located at edge of back side.

Height: 19.5 cm. Width: 20.5 cm. Depth: 6 cm. Overall good condition. Light warping and minute fractures.

Category

Chanukkah Lamps

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 257 Chanukah Lamp Stylized as Mythical Beast (Hydra) – Probably Germany, Late 19th Century

Chanukah lamp. [Probably Germany, late 19th century].

Silver, cast and engraved (shamash and base with Bamberg hallmark,

Download picture

Chanukah Lamp Stylized as Mythical Beast (Hydra) – Probably Germany, Late 19th Century

6 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $2,000

Sold for: $18,750

Including buyer's premium

Chanukah lamp. [Probably Germany, late 19th century].

Silver, cast and engraved (shamash and base with Bamberg hallmark, probably false, and letter "S").

Chanukah lamp, stylized as a mythical eight-headed creature, half scaled and half feathered, with a large pair of wings, standing on talons. The eight spouts, stylized as fish heads, serve as candle-holders. The shamash (removable) is stylized as the tall mast of a ship with a flag, set on the tail.

A few known Chanukah lamps in this design have been recorded. The earliest documentation is by Theodor Harburger P160/855, from a private collection in Munich ca. 1928-1930; another is documented in Jüdisches Lexikon (Berlin, 1930, s.v. Menora, vol. 4a, plate CXXIV); the same lamp is also documented by Mordechai Narkiss in Menorat HaChanukah (1939), no. 174 and p. 81 (from collection of Jewish Museum of Berlin).

Height: 26.5 cm. Maximal width: 19.5 cm. Depth: 19.5 cm. Weight: 1080 g. Good condition. Minor warping to shamash.

For comparisons, see: Sotheby's, Tel Aviv, April 1989, Lot 574; Sotheby's New York, April 29, 2013, Lot 267 (Steinhardt collection); Sotheby's, New York, June 5, 2019, Lot 152.

Category

Chanukkah Lamps

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 258 Rare, Unique Silver Chanukah Lamp – Eastern Europe, 18th/19th Century

Chanukah lamp. [Eastern Europe, presumably Poland, late 18th or early 19th century].

Silver, repoussé, pierced, a

Download picture

Rare, Unique Silver Chanukah Lamp – Eastern Europe, 18th/19th Century

4 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $4,000

Sold for: $7,500

Including buyer's premium

Chanukah lamp. [Eastern Europe, presumably Poland, late 18th or early 19th century].

Silver, repoussé, pierced, and cut (unmarked); silver, cast.

The center of the backplate is decorated with a convex shield featuring a repoussé seven-branched menorah, flanked on either side by a pair of architectonic columns adorned with spiraling grapevines and grape clusters, supporting vases with flowers. Columns flanked in turn by repoussé peacocks and parrots. Near the top of the backplate is a small repoussé plaque bearing the Hebrew inscription "Nes Chanukah". Side panels adorned with matching decorations.

The base of the lamp is hollow, and at its center is the row of oil fonts, shaped like eight fish, with gaping mouths, each emerging from a pierced oval opening in front. At the back of the base is a hinged door, closed with a hook. The base protrudes forward at either end with a pair of square pedestals. Perched on top of these pedestals is a pair of large ducks, screwed on. The lamp stands on four outward-pointing paws.

This Chanukah lamp is documented and illustrated in the Jüdisches Lexikon (Berlin, 1930), under the entry "Menora", vol. 4a, plate CXXII (termed here as "Altwiener Arbeit" – "Old Viennese work" – although it was likely made in Poland). In the illustration, a servant light can be seen attached to the left side panel. The holes mentioned below are also visible.

Height: 27 cm. Maximal width: 32 cm. Maximal depth: 10 cm. Overall good condition. Row of oil fonts not original. Six small holes in backplate, one hole in each side panel, and one larger hole in center of base, most likely evidence of missing ornaments. Bracket attached to left side panel, apparently for (missing) servant light; traces of another bracket on right side panel.

Provenance: Kedem, Auction 20, December 19, 2011, Lot 45; Sotheby's, New York, December 17, 2013, Lot 41.

Category

Chanukkah Lamps

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 259 Silver Chanukah Lamp Produced by Hersz R. Szyldberg – Warsaw, 19th Century

Chanukah lamp. Warsaw, Poland, [ca. 1860s].

Silver, cast; silver, repoussé and embossed (workshop mark of Hersz R

Download picture

Silver Chanukah Lamp Produced by Hersz R. Szyldberg – Warsaw, 19th Century

3 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $400

Sold for: $2,500

Including buyer's premium

Chanukah lamp. Warsaw, Poland, [ca. 1860s].

Silver, cast; silver, repoussé and embossed (workshop mark of Hersz R. Szyldberg, active in Warsaw ca. 1860s).

At top of back side, large pair of birds flanking a crown. The back side is decorated with vegetal and geometric patterns, featuring a basket of flowers in a recess stylized as a shell at the center. The oil fonts are stylized as jugs with small handles.

Height: 20.5 cm. Width: 19 cm. Depth: 7 cm. Overall good condition. Lacking shamash.

Category

Chanukkah Lamps

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 260 Large Chanukah Lamp Stylized as Torah Ark

Chanukah lamp. [Eastern Europe?, probably 20th century].

Silver, cast, embossed, repoussé and engraved (with part

Download picture

Large Chanukah Lamp Stylized as Torah Ark

6 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $1,000

Sold for: $16,250

Including buyer's premium

Chanukah lamp. [Eastern Europe?, probably 20th century].

Silver, cast, embossed, repoussé and engraved (with partial maker's mark, "—ARIS", another partial maker's mark – probably a workshop logo, and standard mark "12"); gilt.

The present lamp is stylized as a large building inspired by 19th-century Eastern European Chanukah lamps, inspired by carved wooden Torah arks. The back side is engraved "Lehadlik Ner Chanukah" within a large cartouche surrounded by a pair of erect lions. The oil fonts are stylized as small jars on a raised platform on front. One of the platforms is engraved with initials in Cyrillic characters. Without shamash.

For comparisons, see: Chanukah lamp from Russia, 1865, Jewish Museum collection in New York (F 100, Braunstein no. 343), and Chanukah lamp from Zhitomir, 1857, Israel Museum collection (B48.09.0346).

Height: 38 cm. Maximal width: 32 cm. Depth: 13 cm. Weight: 2016 g. Overall good condition. Broken piece to vegetal decoration at top of lamp. Some screws loose and some parts partially detached. Pendant lacking. Fractures and small pieces missing from side ornaments. Two removable lamp ornaments or shamash and jar lacking.

Category

Chanukkah Lamps

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 261 Large, Heavy Chanukah Lamp – Morocco

Chanukah lamp. [Morocco, probably Fez, last decades of 20th century].

Cast brass.

Large, heavy Chanukah lamp, with la

Download picture

2 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $250

Sold for: $550

Including buyer's premium

Chanukah lamp. [Morocco, probably Fez, last decades of 20th century].

Cast brass.

Large, heavy Chanukah lamp, with large, thick back side and openwork in vegetal and architectural patterns. Shamash placed at top of back side. Row of large rectangular oil fonts with pinned spouts.

Height: 34.5 cm. Width: 23 cm. Depth: 8 cm. Overall good condition.

Category

Chanukkah Lamps

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 262 Chanukah Lamp with Star of David Ornament – Morocco

Chanukah lamp. [Morocco, probably Marrakesh, early 20th century].

Brass sheet, repoussé, embossed and engraved.

Download picture

Chanukah Lamp with Star of David Ornament – Morocco

2 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $250

Sold for: $313

Including buyer's premium

Chanukah lamp. [Morocco, probably Marrakesh, early 20th century].

Brass sheet, repoussé, embossed and engraved.

Back side decorated with embossed repoussé circles, inspired by decorated Dutch Chanukah lamps. A large Star of David is sawed in the center, topped with the shamash. Other decorations (engraved) in vegetal patterns. The row of oil fonts hangs over a rectangular drip pan. Two matching side panels, with wavy edges. Suspension ring.

Height: 25.5 cm. Width: 17.5 cm. Depth: 5.5 cm. Overall good condition. Fracture approx. 6 cm long and old soldering repair to back side. Minor fracture and soldering repairs to one side panel. Punctures to back side as a result of old joining of oil fonts row.

Category

Chanukkah Lamps

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 263 Colorfully-Decorated Embroidered Wimpel, Incomplete – Germany, 1762

Wimpel (Torah binder / circumcision cloth). [Germany, probably Bavaria region], 1762.

Embroidery of silk thread of vario

Download picture

Colorfully-Decorated Embroidered Wimpel, Incomplete – Germany, 1762

10 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $800

Sold for: $1,000

Including buyer's premium

Wimpel (Torah binder / circumcision cloth). [Germany, probably Bavaria region], 1762.

Embroidery of silk thread of various colors on linen.

Incomplete wimpel, comprised of three fabric sheets of approximately the same size (of an original four), sewn together, and inscribed with the date Shabbat, 5th Tamuz 1762 and a blessing for the newborn: "May he grow in Torah, and to the wedding canopy and to good deeds, Amen Selah".

The caption is embroidered in a diverse range of colors, letters decorated with vegetal and geometric patterns, and decorations featuring animals (a butterfly and birds). Further decorations include a two-headed eagle over the date, a tree under the word "grow" and a Torah scroll and Torah crown after "Torah", and a depiction of a wedding after the word "wedding canopy", with figures in elegant period dress. Some Lamed letters decorated with vegetal patterns or a bird.

The present item was exhibited in the Jewish Museum of London, and is documented in the museum's catalogue (Barnett, 1972), no. 533 (photograph in plate CL).

Height: 14X17 cm. Length: 214 cm. Apart from sheet lacking from beginning of wimpel, overall good condition. Most embroidery in good condition, with minor unraveling and minute tears. Stains and creases to linen.

Provenance: Collection of Simon Brueckheimer.

The Simon Brueckheimer Collection

Simon Brueckheimer was born in Külsheim in 1889. He moved to Marktbreit in 1911, where he served as a schoolteacher from 1920 onward. In 1929, he initiated a project to document Jewish ritual objects and property in the communities of Bavaria, which he conducted during school vacations as part of the Verband Bayerischer Israelitischer Gemeinden (Association of Bavarian Jewish Communities).

During Kristallnacht, Brueckheimer fled to Frankfurt, where he was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. After six weeks he was released, returned to Marktbreit, and in April 1939 emigrated with his family to London, where he continued his project of documentation of the Jewish communities of Bavaria.

During his travels among small communities, as well as after his emigration to London, Brueckheimer assembled a small collection of Jewish objects, which he gathered in the communities themselves or acquired later from Jewish refugees who had arrived in England. Highlights of his collection include a goblet used for the Chevra Kadisha meal of the community of Schwabach, now in the collection of the Israel Museum; and a Torah shield from Gossmannsdorf, sold by Kedem (Auction 106, February 24, 2026, Lot 14). His papers, documenting some 150 small Jewish communities throughout Bavaria, are preserved in the Yad Vashem archives in Jerusalem. Brueckheimer died in England in 1950.

Proceeds from the sale of items from the Brueckheimer collection will be donated in full.

Category

Various Objects from the Simon Brueckheimer Collection

Catalogue Value

View Details

Lot 264 Decorated Wimpel with Color Illustrations – Germany, 1853

Wimpel (Torah binder / circumcision cloth) for Yitzchak son of Yosef. [Germany, probably Bavaria region], 1853.

Ink and

Download picture

Decorated Wimpel with Color Illustrations – Germany, 1853

13 PHOTOS

Auction 108 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art May 12, 2026

Opening: $400

Sold for: $938

Including buyer's premium

Wimpel (Torah binder / circumcision cloth) for Yitzchak son of Yosef. [Germany, probably Bavaria region], 1853.

Ink and paint on linen.

Composed of four sheets of nearly identical size sewn together, with an inscription naming the baby "Yitzchak son of Yosef", born on Wednesday, 6th Kislev 1853, with the blessing: "May G-d raise him to Torah, the wedding canopy and good deeds, Amen Selah".

The Wimpel is decorated and variously colored throughout with charming folk illustrations. All the letters are colored and illustrated with vegetal patterns, incorporating fruit, flowers, people and animals. Additional illustrations include: Isaac blessing Jacob (over the name "Yitzchak"), Joseph meeting Benjamin (over the words "son of Yosef"), next to a horse-drawn carriage, a bow and arrow (Sagittarius, under "Kislev"), figures playing (under "raise him"), a figure holding a Torah scroll, a lion holding a flag and a figure holding a Torah scroll (after, above and below "Torah"), a large illustration depicting a wedding ceremony (after "wedding canopy"), with figures in period dress, and other illustrations. Some letters stylized in zoomorphic patterns. At end of wimpel, at upper edge, small frame with remains of a deleted inscription: "This wimpel was made---".

The present item was exhibited in the Jewish Museum of London, and is documented in the museum's catalogue (Barnett, 1972), no. 567 (photograph in plate CL).

Height: 15.5 to 16.5 cm. Length: 287.5 cm. Overall good condition. Slight creases. Stains, slightly affecting illustrations and text.

Provenance: Collection of Simon Brueckheimer.

The Simon Brueckheimer Collection

Proceeds from the sale of items from the Brueckheimer collection will be donated in full.

Category

Various Objects from the Simon Brueckheimer Collection

Catalogue Value

View Details