Auction 104 Part 1 Rare and Important Items
Silver Ice Bucket with Hebrew Wedding Dedication – Russia, Probably Moscow, 1908 – Frankel and Schlossberg Families
Opening: $2,000
Estimate: $3,000 - $5,000
Unsold
Silver ice bucket. Russia, probably Moscow, dedicatory inscription dated 1908.
Silver, turned and engraved (with Russian fineness marks and makers mark, perhaps I.P. Prokofiev).
Silver ice bucket – stylized as a barrel and decorated in vegetal patterns and a monogram – given as a wedding gift to Yaakov Mordechai Frankel upon his wedding to Shoshanah Schlossberg in 1908.
Around the bucket – near the upper edge – is engraved a dedicatory inscription in square script:
"To our master Mr. Yaakov Mordechai Freinkel with the gentle Mrs. Shoshanah née Schlossberg, from the workers of his factory, for the day of their wedding with Mazal Tov, 6th Nisan 1908".
"To our master Mr. Yaakov Mordechai Freinkel with the gentle Mrs. Shoshanah née Schlossberg, from the workers of his factory, for the day of their wedding with Mazal Tov, 6th Nisan 1908".
On the side are engraved three columns with the names of the givers of the gift in Ashkenazic cursive script (27 names in total): the families Kaplan, Gutt, Werzel, Weiss, Feingold, Rabinowitz, Kashtansky, Scheiker, Kursman, Pablinsky, Zimbel, Yudelowitz, Valk, Terkin, Chanin, Chazanawitz, Goldberg, Kamenetz, Pietrik and others.
Height: 18 cm. Diameter of base: 15.5 cm. Diameter of rim: 13 cm. Good condition.
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