A Heavy Solid Silver Gemstone and Mother of Pearl Torah Crown, American, 1910
the base band embossed and pierced with scrolling acanthus and spaced on either side with a shield engraved in Hebrew with presentation inscriptions, the conforming ribs linked by flowerheads and hung with bells issuing from the beaks of seven birds, bird and ring finial with mother of pearl, marked on base band and stamped STERLING; 71 oz
Height 18.5 inches.
The Hebrew inscriptions read ”Levi Yitzchak Bar Yosef Wachter passed away on Tammuz Shabbat 1859”
A nearly identical but smaller torah crown of the same date was offered Sotheby’s, Tel Aviv, 25 October 2000, lot 50.
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