Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 381

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
ALEICHEM, SHALOM. Autograph Photograph Postcard Signed: "To one of beautiful Zion's sons, M. Chartiner, with the blessings of Zion, from the author to the sons of Zion," in Hebrew, on the correspondence side. The photograph on this bookmark-shaped postcard shows a bust portrait of Isaac Ber Levinson above a broken harp, books, and writing implements. 2x5 1/2 inches; Aleichem's personalized ink stamp touching signature, scattered abrasions and some silvering to photograph. Tarnopol, 22 January 1906

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Solomon Rabinowitz (1859-1916; pen name, Shalom Aleichem) was a Yiddish humorist whose works include the musical, Fiddler on the Roof.