Red leather acordion portfolio with silver lock, with gold stamped owner’s name and date: “Abraham Aguilar, Kingston Jamaica 1777.” H: 6 1/2” x W: 11 1/2”
AUCTION 32 |
Thursday, March 23rd,
2006 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Autographed Letters, Manuscripts, Graphics and Ceremonial Art
Lot 379
(AMERICANA).
LEATHER DOCUMENT PORTFOLIO-CASE.
Kingston, Jamaica, 1777.
Red leather acordion portfolio with silver lock, with gold stamped owner’s name and date: “Abraham Aguilar, Kingston Jamaica 1777.”
H: 6 1/2” x W: 11 1/2”
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
PRICE REALIZED $6,000
Abraham Aguilar was the treasurer of the synagogue of Kingston, Jamaica.
See Jacob A. P. M. Andrade, A Record of the Jews in Jamaica from the English Conquest to the Present Time (Kingston, 1941) p. 241.