Lot 365
  • 365

A DUTCH COPPER TWO COMPARTMENT CHARITY BOX

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
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Description

  • signed vertically on one panel M.R. Jacobson 19, the base stamped 1643.
  • copper
  • length 5 1/4 in.
  • 13.4 cm
rectangular with hinged top, the embossed sides with an invalid and elderly couple, in Dutch New Jewish Hospital.

Exhibited

New York, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, The Collector's Room:  Selections from the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Collection, 1993, no. 60, illus.

Literature

See example of this model in Mozes Heiman Gans, Memorbook:  History of Dutch Jewry from the Renaissance to 1940.

Condition

Wear, hole in base at one corner.
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