Marriage Contract on paper. Solemnizes the wedding of Shmuel Meir [mis-spelled] Banchak to Malka Charashchuvchi. Signature of groom below.

AUCTION 55 | Thursday, June 21st, 2012 at 1:00

Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts Autograph Letters, Graphic & Ceremonial Art

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Lot 273

(KETHUBAH).

Marriage Contract on paper. Solemnizes the wedding of Shmuel Meir [mis-spelled] Banchak to Malka Charashchuvchi. Signature of groom below.

Printed, with manuscript additions, set within gilt geometric border. Folds, taped on verso, edges chipped.

Khar-Joy, Turkemenistan: 4th Tammuz 1925

Est: $700 - $1,000

The wedding took place in Turkemenistan in the town of Khar-Joy (Choy), on the Amu River, some 100 miles east of Bukhara. The Marriage Contract was printed in the house of Rahmim David Bayof, Kokand, Fergana Oblast, Uzbekistan, by permission of the censor in Odessa.