License for a Jewish Pawnbroker.
Auction 98 |
Thursday, June 16th,
2022 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters
Lot 62
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA).
License for a Jewish Pawnbroker.
Baltimore, MD: 16th May 1850
Est: $150 - $200
PRICE REALIZED $125
Solomon Engelmyer (1804-89), whose pawnbroker business was a a frequent advertiser in the Baltimore Sun since 1843, was also active in Jewish communal life. From 1851 to 1853 he was the president of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, and his name appears in the pages of the New York Jewish periodical The Asmonean, advertising for a chazan for his synagogue. His pewter seder plate, engraved with his Hebrew name, Shlomo Leib Engelmyer, and that of his wife, Channa, as well as Baltimore in Hebrew letters, is in the collection of the National Museum of American History.