A Hungarian silver tankard-form Hevra Kadisha charity box, Carolus Laky, Budapest, 1856

the front applied with engraved plaque dated 1876 with a raised scroll cartouche flanked by animals, the cover with latch surmounted by a slotted crowned lion holding a star of David shield, scroll handles

Collection of Michael and Judy Steinhardt 
Gifted by the above

New York, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, The Collector's Room:  Selections from the Michael and Judy Steinhardt Collection, 1993, no. 122, p. 38

many small dents, lion pushed into cover but not split, wear to high spots
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The Hungarian inscription reads: "to the Hevra Kedisha of Tokaj in the Holy memory of my father Abraham, the gift of József Hirsh 1876" above the Hebrew "charity saves from death."

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