An American Silver Mezuzah, Ilya Schor, New York, circa 1950-60

elongated rectangular form, the central door engraved with an inscription and pierced with the word G-d, opening to reveal an illuminated parchment with a praying rabbi, the border pierced, engraved, and embossed with flowering foliage, a boy with prayer book, a girl with Sabbath candllesticks, animals and fruit, the top with figure of a rabbi holding a torah, flanked by birds