BRASS CHARITY BOX Toplitz,Austro-Hungary, 1861
AUCTION 24 |
Tuesday, June 29th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Art and Holy Land Maps Including Ceremonial Art from the Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg
Lot 334
BRASS CHARITY BOX
Toplitz,Austro-Hungary, 1861
Est: $6,000 - $7,000
Hebrew inscription: “This is a donation of the Holy Burial Society of Works of Kindness, Holy Congregation, Toplitz, to benefit the many.”
For similar charity box, see Jewish Theological Seminary Library Catalogue, “From This World to the Next: Jewish Approaches to Illness, Death and the Afterlife” (1999), No. 19, p. 32.