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Candlestick
Candlestick

Candlestick

Not on view
Datebefore 1922
ClassificationsJudaica
Credit LineGift of Stephen S. Bressler
Object number149.90.2
Object DescriptionTall, simple brass candlestick, one of a pair brought to the US by Sarah Melcer Bressler in 1922 from Yasinya in the Carpathians.
Collections
  • Judaica
Keywords
  • Ritual
  • Tenement
NotesSarah Melcer Bressler, paternal grandmother of the donor, was born in Delatyn, Poland. She went to live in Yasinya upon marriage. In the US she lived in the Bronx, New York; she died in NY in 1939.
Candlestick
Candlestick
before 1922
Object number: 149.90.1
Candlesticks
Candlesticks
before 1922
Object number: 149.90.1-2
Pestle
Pestle
Object number: 148.90.2

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