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Auction 7 · Lot 617

(HUNGARY)

Estimate
$1,000–$1,500
Hammer price
Not recorded

Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.

Place

Satu-Mare

Publication

1945-48

Description

OSE Aranykönyve (Cover title). Jewish Institutional Album recording donations by parents commemorating the birth of their children. Thirty-four exceptional illuminated pages. Each page recording in Hebrew and Hungarian, the names of the donor and other pertinent details, amidst skillfully decorated borders. Each page individually executed, in gilt and colors. Opening two leaves with nursing mother, and rather plump smiling toddler

summary

Most surprising and artistically pleasing manuscript, accomplished in the years immediately following the War
pp.36 (excluding blanks). Original boards, worn. Sm.folio
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