A Decorated Omer calendar, circa 1800 and later

the scroll painted with Hebrew inscriptions within red and blue scroll cartouches, 3 membranes circa 1800, the remainder later, read through a window in a parchment surround painted with menorahs, crowns, and tablets of the law spaced with foliage, mounted on rollers within a glazed wood box

Charles E. Feinberg Collection
sold Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1967, lot 35

Detroit Institute of Arts
Toledo Museum of Art, 1951
Janice Charach-Epstein Museum, Feast of Lights, December 1992

Janice Charach-Epstein Museum, Feast of Lights, cat. 86, fig. 34.
Werblowski & Wigoder, Encyclopedia of Jewish Religon, 1966, p. 304-305.

as noted re later cartouches
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This model was used for creation of a replica commissioned by the Spertus Museum of Judaica.