Property from the Ernest and Erika Michael Collection.
A Rare Early German Silver Torah Crown, Jonah Adolff Lambrecht, Hamburg, 1680
Estimate
40,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
With six beaded foliate straps rising to an orb finial, the base band chased with "jewels" and engraved with Hebrew inscription, marked on base band, with probably later cross piece at base pierced for Torah staves
height 9 1/4 in.
23.5 cm
Sotheby's Tel Aviv, 20 October 2002, lot 116.
The inscription reads, Remembrance before God, dedicated by Chatan Torah, the honorable Rabbi Daniel Abensur.
Daniel Abensur was a distinguished member of the local Sephardic Jewish community of Hamburg. He was the younger son of a Marrano burnt at the stake in Lisbon in 1609, and the Polish king’s ambassador in Hamburg.
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