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This rare example of an eighteenth-century American snuff box made of gold may have been made by its goldsmith Myer Myers in honor of the opening of a new Masonic lodge in New York. The cover of the…
Contributor:
Myer Myers
Places:
New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York City, United States of America)
Date:
1770
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Torah finials are a pair of ornaments used to decorate the upper ends of the rollers on which the Torah scroll is wound. The Hebrew term rimonim, which means “pomegranates,” references the…
Contributor:
Myer Myers
Places:
Philadelphia, British America and the British West Indies (Philadelphia, United States of America)
Date:
1776