Auction 32 · Lot 379
Red leather acordion portfolio with silver lock, with gold stamped owner’s name and date: “Abraham Aguilar, Kingston Jamaica 1777.” H: 6 1/2” x W: 11 1/2”
- Estimate
- $4,000–$6,000
- Hammer price
- $6,000
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
(AMERICANA).
LEATHER DOCUMENT PORTFOLIO-CASE.
Kingston, Jamaica, 1777.
summary
Abraham Aguilar was the treasurer of the synagogue of Kingston, Jamaica.
See Jacob A. P. M. Andrade, A Record of the Jews in Jamaica from the English Conquest to the Present Time (Kingston, 1941) p. 241.