Holiday card for Geyer Studio. Outside is the scribe signet that Ismar designed for the studio. Inside, a cartoon, not drawn by Ismar, showing him and the employees of the studio in 1976.
Author Archives: IDEA
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SEASONS OF JOY
Apparently a painted sketch or comprehensive for a Hebrew language Greeting card. Seasons of joy. Holidays and times for celebrating.
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KIBBUTZ YAHEL
Front of a tri-fold brochure for the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, to raise funds for the Kibbutz Yahel Center for Education and Culture.
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CHARLOTTE STERN
Charlotte Stern, one of Ismar’s oldest friends in Jerusalem and an earlier arrival from Germany than he was. She opened Charlotte’s Gifts on Storrs Street in 1938. According to Frommer’s it is the oldest gift shop in West Jerusalem and it is still there. Photo of a photo, taken by Jeff Finger.
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PALESTINE BOOK
Palestine Book. The cover of a magazine for the Jewish Palestine Pavillion at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York. From a photostat.
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ALL THINGS ARE READY
Shakespeare quote for a calendar page. All things are ready if our minds be so. From the Life of King Henry the Fifth
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LORE LILIEN
Book and box for Lore Lilien. Goldsmith Lore Lilien was the wife of printer and printing historian Otto Lilien. The pair were close friends of Ismar, who designed this book with a case with metal clasp for her. Unfortunately this a poor photocopy of a photograph.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
Certificate of Service, one of several certificates done for the United American Hebrew Congregations in 1964.
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SHARON MEMORIAL PARK sketch 2
Small additional sketch attached to the sketch prepared for Eric Marmorek of Sharon Memorial Park for consideration of Emily R. and Kivie Kaplan.
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SHARON MEMORIAL PARK sketch
Prepared especially upon request of Mr. Eric Marmorek for consideration of Emily R. & Kivie Kaplan. Eric Marmorek was an executive at Sharon Memorial Park in Newton, MA.
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REVERENCE LOYALTY UNITY
Line art for Reverence Loyalty Unity signet. India ink with white correction on board.
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ISRAEL Signet
Line art for Israel signet. India ink with white correction on board. This seems to be a partner to the previous post and like it, designed as a stencil.
