<<Papercut >>Marriage Contract.

AUCTION 83 | Thursday, June 20th, 2019 at 1:00pm

Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, Holy Land Maps, Ceremonial Objects, Fine & Graphic Art

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Lot 144

(KETHUBAH).

<<Papercut >>Marriage Contract.

Uniting Yechezkel son of Shlomo with Peril daughter of Aharon. Manuscript in Hebrew composed in square script on paper. Signed by the Shochet and Cantor, Shmuel Aryeh b. Dovber and the Maggid, Hillel Ornisky. The Hebrew text at center, although prominently set, is composed within an unusually petite panel. Surrounded by elaborate papercut, featuring a Menorah below and crown above, amidst a multitude of animals and curling foliage, all painted in multiple colors. Traditional Hebrew texts above. The whole set against red cotton backing and housed within elaborate wooden frame. Stained and soiled, few tears. Unexamined out of frame. Kethubah text approx. 3.5 x 4.5 inches (8.9 x 11.5 cm). Kethubah as a whole: 14 x 19.5 inches (35.5 x 49.5 cm). Frame: 25.5 x 28 inches (64.5 x 71 cm).

‘Krol Erman’: 16th Tammuz 1907

Est: $6,000 - $9,000

<<An Eastern European Kethubah strikingly decorated in papercut form, and with the central traditional Hebrew text of a most uncommon petite appearance.>> The location in which this striking Kethubah was composed is possibly the town, where from 1925, R. Yoel Teitelbaum (later of Satmar), presided as Rabbi. It is located in northwestern Romania, near the border with Hungary and is pronounced Krula (in Yiddish), Nagykároly (in Hungarian) and Carei (in Romanian).