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Mar 22, 2009 at 04:22 PM
News Source: Luxist
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Last year, a new reprinting of the text was announced at a hefty price of $15,000 each. The version Swann Galleries is selling is one of 125 copies on vellum, signed by Szyk and editor Cecil Roth and is in the original gilt-pictorial blue morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, London, 1939, It is estimated at $15,000 to $25,000.
This is just part of a sale that coincides with the New York Antiquarian Book Fair and includes works on cards and the occult from the collection of Stuart R. Kaplan founder of U.S. Games Systems, Inc., a leading publisher of tarot decks and card games.
This will all be on public exhibition at Swann Galleries at 104 East 25th Street in New York City on March 28 and March 30 to April 1.
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Mar 22, 2009 at 05:03 PM Babishka Says:
We have a Szyk haggadah, purchased 40 years ago in Israel for about $25. I wonder how much it is worth today?
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Mar 22, 2009 at 05:28 PM chaim Says:
Hey we live in Belgium and also have it. I always loved looking at the pictures as a kid but never thought it was worth any thing....(I was a kid!)
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Mar 22, 2009 at 06:44 PM True Bas Torah Says:
Please don't worry about how much things are worth....with the downsizing in the economy nobody is buying things anymore....instead save these Haggadahs and pass it down in the family....you'll have more memories this way....my husbands mother left jewelry to me, and what do you think happened....it was pawned by a relative of my husband....please don't do this to these priceless Haggadahs....keep the Haggadahs,no matter how much money their worth....and now I can't get back my mother in laws jewelry....all because a stupid relative pawned it....
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Mar 22, 2009 at 06:10 PM Anonymous Says:
I have one tht has twenty six years of arba cosos stains. It is a pleasure to use, and is worth whatever it cost then I think $150.
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Mar 22, 2009 at 06:09 PM Anonymous Says:
who is gonna spend so much were in a recession???
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Mar 22, 2009 at 07:35 PM just thinking Says:
“ We have a Szyk haggadah, purchased 40 years ago in Israel for about $25. I wonder how much it is worth today? ”
The standard Haggadah's of Szyk, don't sell for much from 50-150 depending on condition. There are rarer editions, and some special bindings which sell for quite a bit more.
As for who would by these things, anyone that could should. they are selling for less then hald what they would sell for in good times, that's a great investment. double your money in a few years, the richest me in the world can't do that.
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Mar 22, 2009 at 08:54 PM Anonymous Says:
Gevaldig
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Mar 22, 2009 at 09:04 PM Seeking Says:
Anyone know where I find find a reproduction of Szyk's painting of the Battle of Tel-Hai?
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Mar 23, 2009 at 10:51 AM Anonymous Says:
“ The standard Haggadah's of Szyk, don't sell for much from 50-150 depending on condition. There are rarer editions, and some special bindings which sell for quite a bit more.
As for who would by these things, anyone that could should. they are selling for less then hald what they would sell for in good times, that's a great investment. double your money in a few years, the richest me in the world can't do that. ”
you can probably find one at pinters in boro park for cheap
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Mar 23, 2009 at 03:39 PM Anonymous Says:
I have a Szyk Haggadah that was given to me in the 60's by a then-young couple from Israel, honeymooning in America, with a lovely inscription saying that they hoped one day I would move to Israel. I was about six years old at the time.
That Haggadah immediately and forever became not only my favorite, but the favorite of succeeding generations of youngsters at the family table, who love to look at its illustrations, some moving and some amusing to their young eyes. Pesach wouldn't be the same without it. Like Anonymous Message 4 above, mine has also accumulated arba kosos stains over the years.
Oh, and nowadays, most years we make our seder in Eretz Yisrael, at our home in Jerusalem. Because just as Yehudit and Greg (alav hashalom) wrote so many years ago, in time I did make aliyah, and of course my Szyk Haggadah came home with me.
I couldn't care less what its market value may be. Its value to me is indescribable.
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