Auction 57 · Lot 367
Four-cornered blue garment with tzitzith (detached) and visible hand-stiching. Each corner pocketed to encase fringes. 29 x 10 inches. Worn.
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- Not recorded
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
CHILD’S TALLITH KATAN
Publication
Alsace, 19th century
summary
One of the distinctive features of Jewish male dress, tzitzit - or fringes - is based on the Biblical commandment to make twisted cords on the four corners of one’s garment (see Numbers 15:38 and Deut. 22:12).
Scarce to find items of religious dress for a Jewish child of the 19th-century.