I have discovered some portfolios and a book or two that someone--I know not who--brought back from pre-1948 Palestine and these items ended up in our temple. They are by famous Israeli artists--e.g. a portfolio of prints by Boris Schatz (founder of the Bezalel School), including a booklet signed by Schatz and by his son Bezalel Schatz. Another item is a lovely, hand-sewn little book of "ten pictures" of Eretz Yisrael by Zeev Raban, also an early Bezalel School artist. (I think I wrote earlier about the artist Stanislaus Bender--who was not Israeli). I suspect these things are of significant value, and when I search the web, I sometimes find--as in the case of the "ten pictures" by Raban, that they have been sold at auction in recent years. What's frustrating is --that to learn the auction price, you have to "subscribe" to the site. Does anyone have a suggestion for how to find out their auction prices without having to "subscribe" to these auction house sites? Andrea Rapp Cincinnati
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