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Auction 105 Books | Letters and Manuscripts | Esther Scrolls and Jewish Ceremonial Art
Miniature Silver Binding Decorated in Filigree – "Beit Tefillah" Siddur – Livorno, 1862
Opening: $300
Sold for: $813
Including buyer's premium
Silver binding decorated in filigree. [Italy, 19th century].
Silver (unmarked); filigree and granulation; print on paper; cardboard covered in velvet fabric.
Miniature "siddur" (Hebrew prayer book) in original binding, covered in pinkish velvet fabric (badly worn), inserted into filigree binding bearing symmetrical vegetal patterns and minute silver spheres (granulation).
Book: "Beit Tefillah" siddur, in the tradition of the "Italiani" community. Livorno, [5622 = 1862].
Binding: 10X6.5 cm. Thickness: 4 cm. Good condition. Minor fractures. Missing buckles. Minute soldering repair.
Book: 288 leaves, 9.3 cm. Overall good condition. Few stains. Margins of several leaves professionally restored. Binding badly worn. Professional restorations made on attachments of binding to book block. Handwritten notation (Italian) on back pastedown.
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