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Lot #/Los-Nr.: a30634 :רפסמ טול Open.Bid/Anf.Geb. : $20 : יתלחתה ריחמ

Palestine/Yishuv: Bronze colored participants stick-pin of the 1932 Shavuot Holiday festivities ("Hagigot HaBikurim") in Haifa; maker marked "F" or Hebrew-letter
"Shin"; size: 15 x 33.5mm; weight: 1.05g. Shavuot festivities were a ritual occurrence across most of pre-State Israel from the smallest locales to large cities. On this
occasion the head of the Jewish National Fund, Menachem Ussishkin, delivered an address. In modern conception Shavuot is associated with the first harvest of the year
but more importantly it commemorates Israel receiving the Torah through Moses at Mount Sinai.
Lot #/Los-Nr.: a30635 :רפסמ טול Open.Bid/Anf.Geb. : $20 : יתלחתה ריחמ

Palestine/Yishuv: Silver colored participants stick-pin of the 1932 Shavuot Holiday festivities ("Hagigot HaBikurim") in Haifa; maker marked "F" or
Hebrew-letter "Shin"; size: 15 x 32.5mm; weight: 1.1g.

Lot #/Los-Nr.: a30636 :רפסמ טול Open.Bid/Anf.Geb. : $20 : יתלחתה ריחמ

Palestine/Yishuv: Bronze colored participants stick-pin of the 1933 Shavuot Holiday festivities ("Hagigot HaBikurim") in Haifa; maker marked "F" or
Hebrew-letter "Shin"; size: 21 x 32.5mm; weight: 1.2g.

Lot #/Los-Nr.: a30637 :רפסמ טול Open.Bid/Anf.Geb. : $75 : יתלחתה ריחמ

Palestine/Yishuv: 1932 Levant Fair in Tel Aviv commemorative pin; not maker-marked; size: 13.25 x 33.5mm; weight: 0.75g. The 1932 Fair was the fifth in a series of
periodic exhibitions highlighting Jewish trade and industry in Palestine, beginning with 1923 exhibition of "Produce of the Land". The 1932 Fair was 1st to be called the
"Levant Fair", & for it a symbol of a flying camel was used. This fair involved the partipation of other nations and put Tel Aviv for the first time in the forefront, leading her
mayor, Dizengoff to exclaim "Tel Aviv is the center of the world"; over 300,000 people attended.

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