Israeli Boxes

Top quality and excellent condition antique box for the collectors of rare and beautiful. Over the years we have had the pleasure of owning and selling some truly beautiful antique boxes and this handcrafted jewelry box is right up there with the best. The exotic olive wood that was used to create this box comes with the most amazing natural grains and over the many decades it has grown the most beautiful patina as well. This rare and hard woodtype makes this a relatively heavy (for its size) box and the hardness of the wood makes the detailed oak leaf and acorn patterns on top extra impressive. We believe the particular design of these handcarved patterns may also symbolize the tree of life (an important symbol in many religions). Unfortunately we are unable to translate the handpainted-in-black-ink Hebrew text just above the keyhole. What makes this majestic antique box stand...

A vintage sterling silver trinket or jewelry box. Cylindrical shape, screw-on lid. The cover is garnished with a faceted sapphire stone and hand-engraved inscription Hadaya. The inside of the box is lined with red velvet. Hand-engraved marks Hadaya, 925, 05Y 305 are on the bottom. Weight: 78 grams. Hadaya is an Israeli jewelry...

Cast bronze Pal-Bell rectangular box with lid. This piece features an indented, ribbed lid with alternating patinated bronze and black stripes...

Mid-Century Modern Verdigris Bronze Trinket Box.

Silver and silver filigree Etrog container, Bezalel School, Jerusalem, circa 1950. The lid is etched with grapes, vines, pomegranates and leaves, decorated with silver filigree on th...

Tin charity box, the "Heichal HaTalmud" Yeshiva, Tel-Aviv, circa 1950. Tzedakah is a Hebrew word commonly translated as charity, however the word is more ...

Hand painted olive wood Etrog box by Bezalel school Jerusalem, circa 1910. Unique octagonal shape. Decorated with a scene of a Jew holding and blessing on t...

Modern sterling silver Etrog container by Arie Ofir, Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1985. Signed on the bottom, "Sterling", "Jerusalem", "Israel", and "Arie Ofir,"...

Silver and silver filigree etrog container, by Yehia Yemini, Bezalel School, Jerusalem, circa 1920. Acid-etched decoration with grapes and vines on the lid, and with pomegranates and leaves on the base, decorated with silver filigree on the lid, above and below the Hebrew text, and around the feet. The central band inscribed in etched inscription: "And you shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of thick trees, willows of the brook", The lid signed in etching "Bezalel Jerusalem", and topped with pomegranate shaped finial. Raised on four conic feet. Yehia Yemini Born in 1897 into a family of San'a silversmiths, Yehia Yemini reached Jerusalem with his family at the young age of three. When Bezalel founded its Silver Department In 1908, Yemini became one of its employees, and helped other Yemenites to forge Bezalel's unique synthesis of East and West. After the dismissals of 1914, Yemini joined three groups of Jerusalem craftsmen who specialized in silver crafting in the manner of Bezalel: "Keter," "Kav Lavan," and "Sharar" (directed respectively by Shneior, Ossanovitch and Rabinovitz). Yemini was exceptionally talented and skilled in blending the traditions of Yemenite silver...

Blue Tin charity box, Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1935. Inscribed in Hebrew in the front: "Ramban Zi"a Charity Box, Kolel Viznich." and decorated in the cente...

Yellow tin charity box, Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1950. Inscribed in Hebrew in the front: "Charity center- THE SAVER, named after Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Eizenbach Z"l, in the Holy city ...

Painted tin charity box, inscribed with Hebrew: "Zokef Kfufim in the Holy city of Jerusalem" Jerusalem, Israel, circa 1950. Tzedakah is a Hebrew word comm...