Mar 10, 2020 - Sale 2533

Sale 2533 - Lot 129

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(JUDAICA.) Ticket for the "Annual Ball in Aid of the Funds of the Hebrew Benevolent So'y." Illustrated card, 3 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches, on coated stock; minor wear, mount remnants on verso. [New York?], circa 1840s

Additional Details

This ticket is undated and no place is given, but the New York Hebrew Benevolent Society held annual balls using similar language from 1840 through at least 1848. In the ticket's illustration, Moses shows the Ten Commandments to a boy in modern dress.