A Silver Torah Pointer, Israel 2nd half 20th Century

An Exquisite Silver Torah Pointer, made in Morocco in 1931. Torah pointer is yet another piece of Sephardic Judaica that was artistically made in...

A Beautifully Engraved Silver Torah Pointer, made in Morocco, Circa 1900. This dedicated Torah pointer is one of the many pieces of Judaica from the Sephardic Jewry that was present...

An Elegant Silver Torah Pointer made in Austria in the late-19th Century. Torah Pointer is fashioned as a two-tiered tapering circular handle applied to a suspension hole and ring a...

A Valiant Russian Silver Torah Pointer, made in the late 19th Century. There was a large presence of Russian Jewry either living in Russia or emigrating to America in the late 19th ...

This sterling silver Torah pointer (Yad) from Israel has a hammered finish on the handle and a sterling silver chain on the end to hang on the Torah. Th...

A silver Jewish Torah pointer or Yad A silver yad is a Jewish ritual pointer, known as a Torah pointer, used by the reader to follow the text during the Torah reading from the parchment Torah scrolls...

This outstanding sterling silver Torah Pointer is 35 cm long and was found in Spain. Hand crafted with lots of details and very filigran in 1844 ,19th century. On top there is a lit...

An exceptional, fine and impressive antique Russian silver Torah pointer/yad; an addition to our Judaica silverware collection This exceptional antique 19th century Russian silver Torah pointer/yad has a knopped tapering cylindrical form. The bulbous knops are each plain and unembellished. The plain tapering handpiece is embellished with applied interlacing designs to the upper portion. The shaft of this silver Torah pointer has a stranded twist design, to an undulating circular collar style knop. This lower knop terminates with an impressive hand, with its index finger pointed. The hallmarks struck to the handpiece of this exceptional silver Torah pointer include: Silver quality/purity mark: 84 (84 zolotniks*) City Mark: Moscow, Russia Maker's mark: ФВ (untraced) Such original Russian examples are becoming increasingly difficult to locate; due to their formation they do not stand the test of time. * 84 zolotniki is equivalent to 875/1000 or .875 standard silver NOTE: The Hebrew word yad (יד) translates to "hand" and is used while reading the Torah. The yad ensures that an impure hand does not touch the fragile parchment; issues also arise when ink does not absorb to the velum and there can be damage to the wording. Condition This antique yad...