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A CONTINENTAL SILVER BASKET
PROBABLY PALESTINE, MID 19TH CENTURY
Of octagonal form, raised on four baluster feet, with two hinged flat covers, each engraved with a Jerusalem vignette, one with Ha-Kotel ha-Ma'aravi and the other with Migdal David, both titled in Hebrew, engraved all along the edges with a presentation inscription in Hebrew: From me, Moshe Loeb Bamberger, Rav u-moreh tsedek in the Holy Community of Kissingen on the evening of the festival of Shavuot 1867, a present and many thanks and blessings for the Chatham, the Kabbalist Sasson son of Moshe in the Holy City of Jerusalem, surrounded by foliage and with Hebrew inscriptions, with swing handle surmounted by scrolls and grotesques, apparently unmarked--9 5/8 in. (24.4 cm.) long
(38 oz. 10 dwt.)
