Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Artillery shell casing, souvenir, marking the conquest of Jerusalem in the First World War, bearing inscriptions and decorations mocking the defeated German army. Jerusalem, December 1917.
Engraved brass, inlaid with copper and silver (damascening).
Artillery shell casing from a German canon shell, 75 mm, bearing, at center, the emblem "Reichsadler" ("Eagle of the Reich"); two smiling skulls donning the characteristic German army "helmets with a spike" ("Pickelhaube") engraved with the inscription "German Militarism". Under the skulls is the mockingly humorous inscription "Gott mit uns" ("God is with us").
The notation "Souvenir of the Conquest of Jerusalem. Dec. 1917" appears around the perimeter of the base of the shell casing.
17.5 cm. Overall good condition. Wear and blemishes. Open fractures to upper rim and base.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $400
Sold for: $688
Including buyer's premium
Two artillery shell casings from German canon shells, 75 mm, souvenirs of the conquest of Jerusalem and bearing inscriptions in this vein. 1917.
• Artillery shell casing bearing arabesque patterns and the inscription (English) "December 9th 1917 Jerusalem".
Brass, inlaid with silver.
Artillery shell casing bearing the tughra (calligraphic monogram) of the last Ottoman sultan, Mehmed VI.
The Hebrew-English inscription "Mazkeret MiYerushalayim / Souvenir of the Conquest of Jerusalem" appears along the perimeter of the base of the shell casing.
Brass, engraved and inlaid with silver.
Two artillery shell casings. Height: 13 cm. Overall Good condition.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $400
Sold for: $1,188
Including buyer's premium
Artillery shell casing decorated in the style of the Bezalel School, bearing inscriptions marking the conquest of Jerusalem in the First World War. Jerusalem, 24th of Kislev, 5678 [December 9, 1917].
Engraved brass, inlaid with copper and silver (damascening).
Artillery shell casing from a German canon shell, 75 mm, decorated in the style of the Bezalel School, with arabesque patterns, a date palm, and the biblical verses "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4; engraved inside an engraved frame in the form of the Tablets of the Law), and "And they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruninghooks" (ibid.). At center, near the base of the shell, are two additional engraved inscriptions marking the conquest of Jerusalem in the course of the First World War.
Height: 27.5 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $800
Sold for: $2,375
Including buyer's premium
Two artillery shell casing decorated in the style of the Bezalel School. Ca. 1917.
Engraved brass, inlaid with copper and silver (damascening).
Two artillery shell casings from German canon shells, 75 mm, decorated in the style of the Bezalel School, with arabesque and vegetal patterns, and with date palms – in all likelihood created not long after the conquest of Jerusalem by British forces in the First World War.
The first of the shell casings features a Menorah framed by the outline of the Two Tablets of the Law. Along the perimeter of the base is the (Hebrew)
inscription "Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, saith the Lord of Hosts" (Zechariah 4:6). The second shell casing also bears the outline of the Two Tablets of the Law, but inside this is an illustration of the Dome of the Rock, and inscribed along the perimeter of the base are the words (in Hebrew) "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4).
Height: 27.5 cm. Good condition. Blemishes.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $500
Unsold
Pair of decorated artillery (canon) shell casings. Bezalel School, first decades of the 20th century [apparently, shortly after the end of the First World War]. With (later) engraved dedicatory inscriptions, dated 5695 [1934].
Engraved brass.
Pair of artillery shell casings decorated with arabesque patterns in the style of the Bezalel School, and, along the borders of their bottoms, bearing the (Hebrew) marks "Bezalel Jerusalem". Added to these shell casings at a later date were (Hebrew) dedicatory inscriptions with wedding-day greetings to the couple Esther and Ephraim Rosler, from their friend, Yehoshua Schmerling. These inscriptions are dated the 15th of Shevat [Tu Bi-Shevat] 5695 [January 19, 1934], and the location is given as "Tel Aviv".
Two artillery shell casings. Height: 27.5 cm. Overall good condition. Blemishes. Dedicatory inscriptions difficult to decipher.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $200
Sold for: $350
Including buyer's premium
Decorated artillery shell casing from German canon shell. [Subsequent to 1917].
Engraved brass.
Artillery shell casing from German canon shell, 75 mm, decorated with image of the Tower of David and inscribed with the biblical verse "If I forget thee O Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its cunning" (Psalms 137:5).
Height: 13 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $200
Sold for: $1,625
Including buyer's premium
Silver medallion commemorating the British conquest of Jerusalem during World War I, 1917.
Silver, struck. Artist’s initials: MH.
The obverse depicts a Star of David enclosing a lion, encircled by the inscriptions: "The Conquest of Jerusalem 9.XII.1917" (Hebrew and English). Reverse blank.
Diameter: 30 mm. With suspension loop.
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Auction 104 Part 2 Jerusalem Sale: Selected Items from the Collection of Amos Mar Chaim
Oct 22, 2025
Opening: $300
Sold for: $1,000
Including buyer's premium
The Temple Mount from "Jerusalem", a small-scale relief by Dani Karavan. 1974.
Brass, cast, engraved.
A relief of the Temple Mount, a reduced model of a detail from Karavan’s monumental work "Jerusalem – City of Peace", installed in the lobby of the Hilton Hotel in Jerusalem (today the Vert Hotel). With engraved dedication on verso to Mayor Teddy Kollek, presented on the occasion of the opening of the hotel.
Set in a frame, padded with green velvet and covered with a removable Plexiglas panel, with a separate plaque bearing the date of the inauguration and the title of the work.
See: Wall Art Survey in Israel, no. 0975.
10.5X10.5 cm. Thickness: 7 mm. Frame: 33.5X38 cm.
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