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Auction 32 · Lot 267
MONTEFIORE, MOSES
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Description
Two letters from Sir Moses Montefiore regarding disbursements to charities in Eretz Israel:
Letter Signed, in English to Morris Cohen, Treasurer and Gabbai of the Dublin Hebrew Congregation. With personal wishes added in Sir Moses’ hand. London, 20 September 5624 [1864].
* Letter Signed, in Hebrew to R. Abraham Aschkenazi and R. Meir ben Asher of Anikst of Jerusalem. London, Rosh Chodesh 5630 [1870]. Address-panel attached
summary
R. Meir ben Asher Kamaikin of Anikst (d. 1885) was, after his arrival in Jerusalem in 1862, responsible for Kollel Vilna, and a trustee of Etz Chaim Yeshivah and several other Jerusalem institutions and charitable organizations. See Frumkin and Rivlin, Toldoth Chachmei Yerushalayim, Part III (1929) p. 269, no. 37