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June 15 • 2006

enance at a glance: It was made . in
Poland during the art deco period
from about 1910 to 1935. Appraising
the
condition of the piece, he turns it
Toronto
over to inspect the maker's tiny silver
marks on the underside, then pins its
dapper gentleman of 38,
value
at $900.
Jonathan Greenstein is pro-
A
"Shabbos
knife" — used to cut
prietor of J. Greenstein & Co.
challah
bread
on
the Sabbath — was
of Brooklyn, which he describes as "the
made
in
Upper
Bohemia
about 100
only auction house completely devoted
years
ago
and
has
a
value
of about
to Jewish ritual objects in America."
$100.
But
he
doesn't
give
a
dollar esti-
Recently, Greenstein brought
mate
for
a
"shochet's
knife"
— once
his Jewish version of the popular
used
for
the
kosher
slaughter
of ani-
Antiques Roadshow television pro-
mals
—
because
it
probably
wouldn't
gram to Toronto. He was the main
fetch anything at auction.
attraction at the event, which wasn't
"Shochet knives do have a value,
filmed for TV and which included sev-
actually,
when they're inscribed in the
eral other appraisers.
Hebrew
with
the owner's name — I've
Sitting last month at the front of an
sold
them
at
auction
for $1,000 to
audience of about 100 at Toronto's Beth
$2,000,"
he
remarks.
Tzedec Synagogue, Greenstein rapidly
A "tallit or tefillin" bag, made of fab-
and entertainingly pronounces judg-
ric
for holding a prayer shawl or phy-
ment on the parade of mostly ritual
lacteries,
is "a beautiful piece of Jewish
and some cultuial objects brought his
folk
art
that
was handmade for some-
way. Most are Kiddush cups, candle-
body."
He
notes
the fine decorations of
sticks, menorahs, matzah covers and
flowers
and
crowns
and assigns a value
other items commonly found in Jewish
of
$200
to
it.
homes in centuries past as well as
Then he warns that an object's high-
today.
est
value usually resides in its connec-
A woman brings forward a silver
tion
to family members, and that it
menorah, and he declares its prov-

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