Image Not Available

Spice box

Not on view

Date19th century

ClassificationsJudaica

Credit LineGift of Ida and Karl Apotheker

Object number2011.5.1

Object DescriptionSilver filigree spice box, door, flag on top, four legs. Screw added at top, not original. From Moravia, probably made in Brno. Silver mark. [notebook]

Collections

Judaica

Keywords

Sabbath
Ritual
Brno

NotesBelonged to great great grandfather of Ida Apotheker, then to grandfather Lazarus Milchspeiser, 19th century. Grandfather moved to Trnava, Slovakia, died in flu epidemic 1918. Leopold Milchspeiser (b. 1905) came 1922 to US, went back in 1929, met Sari married her, stayed for 7 years, Ida was born 1931 in Czechoslovakia, family came to US in 1938. Milchspeiser was changed to Muller in the US. Screw has been there since at least 1938.

Discover More

Spice box

Object number: 2005.A.18

Spice box

Object number: 2005.A.17ab

Image Not Available

Freedom Tower spice box

2014

Object number: 2016.1.1ab