Certificate of Purchase of Seat in Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue

AUCTION 33 | Tuesday, June 20th, 2006 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Including Hebrew Printed Books, Manuscripts, & Autograph Letters

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Lot 191

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Certificate of Purchase of Seat in Amsterdam’s Great Synagogue

Printed in Hebrew with mauscript entries. At top, emblem of Amsterdam Community. Vellum Single leaf. Folio

Amsterdam: 1779

Est: $200 - $300

PRICE REALIZED $550

The certificate declares that seat No. 267 rightfully belongs to the executor of the estate of Hertz ben Ziskind Levi Emden. A codicil to the document states that it was brought before the notary Mr. Jacob Klinkhamel on the twenty-fifth of June 1790