MINIATURE BRONZE PLAQUE OF JOSEPH TRUMPELDOR.

Arched, monument-shape, fashioned after Boris Schatz’s 1920 Bezalel bronze memorial plaque. Lower register bears Hebrew engraving “Joseph Trumpeldor died the death of a martyr, Tel-Chai, 12th Adar, 5680” with arrow-stabbed lion, representing the heroic Trumpeldor and comrades. Marked. 2.75 x 1.75 inches. * With: Fitted case bearing impression of “Prof. Boris Schatz” with image of the Temple Ark; and Bezalel Jerusalem label on underside.

Russian-born Joseph Trumpeldor (1880-1920), settled in Eretz-Israel in 1912. He founded the Zion Mule Corps in 1915 and saw action in Gallipoli. In 1918, he established He-Halutz, the pioneering youth organization. In the defense against Arab attack of Tel Chai, a settlement in the Galilee, he was killed, his final utterance being: “It is good to die for one’s country.”