HA 95 - Photgraphic views of the Bosphorus c 1880
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Four vignettes inserted in gold border printed by Ph. Frey & Co of Germany for M.W. Shapira of Jerusalem. Moses Wilhelm Shapira was a Polish Jew who opened a shop in Jerusalem in 1861 catering for the pilgrim trade. He committed suicide in Rotterdam in 1884 after selling spurious antiquities to the British Museum. The views show the Mosque de la Valide and the Bosphorus.