Kethubah [Marriage Contract] of Morris Meyer to Sarah Gertrude Oppenheim

Estimate: $1,200–$1,800
Hammer price: Not recorded

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

author

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

Place

Charleston, South Carolina

Publication

28th Cheshvan, 1857

Description

Hebrew, English and German. Hebrew scribal lettering

summary

The Kethubah states that the ceremony took place “in the eighty-first year of American Independence.”The officiating rabbi was Dr. Maurice Mayer who served as minister of Beth Elohim, Charleston’s historic synagogue, from 1852 to 1857. See Reznikoff and Engelman, The Jews of Charleston (1950) pp. 90, 148. For some unknown reason, the Kethubah required validation by the Landrabbiner of Hannover, Germany in 1889. The German-language validation appears as a codicil to the Kethubah

pp. (2) + 2 integral blanks. Slight tears. Good condition. Black ink on ruled paper. Folio

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