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Five flags for Simchat Torah - rare versions. Israel 1950s

Opening price: $120

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Five flags for Simchat Torah - a lithographic print on cardboard - most of them rare versions that do not appear in the 'flags of Simchat Torah'. Israel, 1950s.

1. lithographic print on cardboard. Children hold flags near the City of David and the Western Wall. On the left, adults read the Torah and the Dove of Peace . Does not appear in the 'Flags of Simchat Torah from the Jewish Art to Israeli Hebrew Culture', published by the Eretz Israel Museum 2012. Slight tears.

2. Lithographic print on cardboard. Boys and girls from a moshav or kibbutz dance with flags in their hands. Does not appear in the 'Flags of Simchat Torah from Jewish Folk Art to Israeli Hebrew Culture', published by the Eretz Israel Museum 2012.

3. Lithographic print on cardboard. Children dancing against the backdrop of the Western Wall. On the right and left children are holding Torah scrolls. Does not appear in the 'Flags of Simchat Torah from Jewish Folk Art to Israeli Hebrew Culture', published by the Eretz Israel Museum 2012.

4. Lithographic print on cardboard. On the right is an imaginary figure of Moses and the Tablets of the Covenant. On the left, the cantor blows the shofar, in the center - the Ark, above inscription "Simchat Torah". Does not appear in the 'Flags of Simchat Torah from Jewish Folk Art to Israeli Hebrew Culture', published by the Eretz Israel Museum 2012.

5. Lithographic print on cardboard. Painting: Zvi Livni (Signed in print Z.L.). Children lean over a Torah scroll to which were added paintings of sacred sites inspired by postcards from the 19th-century Holy Land. (In 'The Flags', this flag appears from the collection of the Israel Museum).

Same size: 35x25 cm. On the back of the flags decorations and quotes from the sources. general condition good.

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176. Five flags for Simchat Torah - rare versions. Israel 1950s