Auction 85
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Graphic & Ceremonial Art
By Kestenbaum & Company
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Nov 7, 2019
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LOT 20:
(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)
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Sold for: $600
Estimated price :
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1,000 - $1,500
Buyer's Premium: 25%
sales tax: 8.875%
On commission only
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(AMERICAN-JUDAICA)
A coin-silver soup-ladle made by <<Solomon Ralph Biesenthal >>of Louisville Kentucky (1829-1903). Engraved “Remember Jetta Gerstley.” Marked: “SRBiesenthal Louisville.”
Length: 13 inches.
Louisville, Kentucky: c. 1858
Solomon Biesenthal (1829-1903) along with his wife Rosalie Samuelson, arrived in America from Poland around 1850. After a sojourn in Cincinnati, Biesenthal settled with his family in Louisville where he owned a silver and jewelry shop on Market Street. In 1860 he founded the Louisville Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society and and two years later, Louisville’s Chebrah Bikur Cholim Ukedosho. For further details concerning the Kentucky-based Jewish silversmith Solomon Biesenthal and this item of silver in particular, see Gary Dean Gardner, Kentucky's Unknown Story of Jewish Silver: Assessment Of A Kentucky Coin Silver Soup Ladle ca. 1858-1860 by Solomon Ralph Biesenthal, Louisville, KY: http://southernfoodandmaterialculture.blogspot.com/2018/08/kentuckys-unknown-story-of-jewish-silver.html.
Solomon Biesenthal (1829-1903) along with his wife Rosalie Samuelson, arrived in America from Poland around 1850. After a sojourn in Cincinnati, Biesenthal settled with his family in Louisville where he owned a silver and jewelry shop on Market Street. In 1860 he founded the Louisville Hebrew Mutual Benefit Society and and two years later, Louisville’s Chebrah Bikur Cholim Ukedosho. For further details concerning the Kentucky-based Jewish silversmith Solomon Biesenthal and this item of silver in particular, see Gary Dean Gardner, Kentucky's Unknown Story of Jewish Silver: Assessment Of A Kentucky Coin Silver Soup Ladle ca. 1858-1860 by Solomon Ralph Biesenthal, Louisville, KY: http://southernfoodandmaterialculture.blogspot.com/2018/08/kentuckys-unknown-story-of-jewish-silver.html.
