Shabbat challah knife - silver, made by "Walport". Signed: 'WOLPERT STERLING'.
On the butt of the knife is an engraving of the bread blessing "Hamtzi Lechem min HaAretz".
Yehuda Ludwig Wolpert [1900-1981] An Israeli-American designer, jeweler and artist born in Germany. The pioneers of modern goldsmithing in general and in Israel in particular. In 1933, following the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, he immigrated to Eretz Israel with his family. In Eretz Israel, he worked at the B. Friedlander workshop designing silverware, and together with Victor Shlomo Rees, he created the sculpture "The Flying Camel" of the "Levant Fair", under the architect Arie Elhanani. In 1935 he began teaching at the "New Bezalel" in Jerusalem, where he headed the metal department together with the goldsmith David Heinz Gumbel. Among his well-known works: Passover Seder and Cup (1929), "The railing of the 12 Tribes" (1940) in the Faculty of Law Building at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Torah cover (1949) given to American President Harry Truman by Haim Weizmann, The title and gate of the Weizmann Institute of Science (1951-1952) and more.
Weight: 0.214 grams.
Length: 33 cm.
Very good condition.
