Centered as a shield applied with a butterfly above crossed cornucopias, between two columns. Artfully topped by parrots and a crown applied with grapevine. Lamps are contained within the box and have die-rolled borders. Later servant light, assembled, some parts Polish.
Peter Ehrenthal, born on September 2, 1920 in Bánffyhunyad (now Huedin), Romania. Having no electricity in their home; attending primary school in town and going to Cluj (50 kilometers away) for high school; people mostly traveling by horse and buggy; how his family was not religious but his grandfather took him to synagogue on the High Holidays; moving with his family to Bucharest, Romania when he was 13 years old; fighting with a newsboy who called him a Jew; attending a gymnasium (high school) in Bucharest until 1936 when he was thrown out; apprenticing to a silversmith until the war began; his father being forced to clean the street, but was permitted to continue his dental practice; being forced to work in a labor camp for a short while; returning home and not reporting to duty (no one looked for him); working in the basement doing his silversmith work during the war; being liberated by the Russian Army; joining the Young Communists (he believed in their philosophy but did not like the way it was carried out); getting married to Erica; leaving Romania for Palestine along with his new wife as well as his brother and uncle and their families; receiving help from the Hagenah; being captured by the British on a fishing boat and interned on Cyprus until Israel became a state; working as a school manager in Israel for newcomers and then as a merchant; being sent by a company to the United States in 1957 and deciding to stay in the US; going into the silversmithing business and later became an antiques dealer;
Condition: Lead solder repairs to back. overall great condition
Dimensions: 10.5in H., 9in L., 2.25in W., 27cm H., 24cm L., 6.5cm W., 32.145ozt. weight
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