Obj. ID: 57457
  Comparative & Miscellaneous  Seal of Rabbi Ya'akov Yantshi Kalich of Ustrzyki, Descendant of Bnei Issachar, Safed, 19th century

This description was prepared by the team of the Kedem Auction House Jerusalem and published in the Kedem Catalogue 8 (2010), lot 16: 

Copper seal for wax stamps. Safed, 19th century.

The seal bears the writing: "Ya'akov Yantshi ben Harav Z. Kalich". Decorated in the center with a vegetal design.

Rabbi Ya'akov Yantshi moved to Safed from Ustrzyki Dolne (Poland) with his parents, Rabbi Shmuel Zanvil Kalich and his wife Freide. Died in Safed in 1897. His parents died in Safed in 1883 and 1909. Freide was the daughter of Rabbi Ya'akov Uri of Turka, from his second marriage with the daughter of Rabbi Moshe Shoenfeld, son-in-law of the Rebbe Zvi Elimelech Medinov author of "Bnei Issachar". Rabbi Shmuel Zenvil was the son of Rabbi Yesha'ayahu Shlomo Zalman Kalich of Ustrzyki and Ester Roize of Ustrzyki and Litovisk.

See enclosed material.

Diameter of seal: 1.8 cm. Height: 4 cm. Good condition.