Lot 44
44
Property from A NEW YORK ESTATE
AN IMPORTANT CONTINENTAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER MEGILLAH

Details
AN IMPORTANT CONTINENTAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER MEGILLAH
LATE 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY DUTCH

Cylindrical, with applied molded bands, and baluster handle, the spiral parcel-gilt finial with acorn knop, silver scroll mount with openwork thumbpiece, connecting to the megillah Esther Scroll written in square Sefardic Hebrew script on 10 membranes, with 15 lines to a column, the silver case engraved with a coat-of-arms, crest and motto within rococo cartouche, apparently unmarked except for 19th century Dutch control marks
10in. (25.4cm.) long

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Norden impaling those of Norden. The Norden arms were granted April 24, 1771 to Solomon Norden of All Hallows, Staining, London, a merchant and grandson of Solomon Norden, described as "late of Amsterdam, merchant". Solomon Norden's daughter, Leah, married Assur Keyser. Their son, Moses Solomon Keyser, was one of the founders of the Jewish Board of Guardians in England (see The Jewish Historical Society of England, Anglo-Jewish Notabilities, their Arms and Testamentary Dispositions, 1949, pp. 112-113).