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LOT 201:
Clock of the Lubavitcher Rebbe – With the Rebbe's Initials Inscribed on the Case
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Clock of the Lubavitcher Rebbe – With the Rebbe's Initials Inscribed on the Case
Clock of Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. In 1949 the Rebbe gifted it to his nephew R. Shalom Ber (Barry) Gurary.
An eight-day clock, a mechanical clock with a winding mechanism lasting eight days (product of Switzerland, ca. 1940s). The clock is set in a brown, leather case; the outer covering of the case is inscribed with a gilt decoration of the letters M. S. – the initials of the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Menachem Schneerson).
Letter of authenticity enclosed (handwritten note in English), signed in Hebrew by his nephew R. Shalom Ber (Barry) Gurary, only grandson of the Rebbe Rayatz (son of his daughter Rebbetzin Chana and her husband R. Shemaryahu Gurary): "I hereby gift… the eight day alarm clock which my uncle [the Lubavitcher Rebbe] gave me as a gift in 1949. I was waking late and my uncle gave me his clock. It has his initials MS on it". The letter is dated March 18, 1990.
Approx. 10.5x10 cm. The winding mechanism was not examined for functionality. Tears and damage. The inner part (the clock) is detached from the case.
Included is a wooden box that may have also been used by the rebbe or his family (the box was given along with the clock, but it is not mentioned in the letter of authenticity).
