Antique cast and plate silver 800/000 Hanukkah lamp, an oil lamp for the Jewish festival of lights made in Italy in the early 20th century in good condition. This Judaica artwork featuring a shaped backplate in silver foil, embossed with a scrolling foliage culminating in a crown, in the central part a monumental menorah supported and flanked by two cast Lion of Judah figures. The lower shaped base formed by an eight lamp tray with the eight candle holders,  standing on four shell-shaped feet. In the lower left part of the base near the edge we find the silver mark of 800/000 together with an illegible mark. in good condition, it comes from a private collection of Trieste, a city in Nothern Italy closed to Slovenian border, where we have selected other Czechoslovakian silver Judaica items dating back to 1920 circa; we suppose our lamp belongs to the same period. It weighs 510 grams. It is an antique Italian oil lamp for the Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. It celebrates the victory of Judas Maccabeus over the Syrian king Antiochus Epiphanes and the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in 165 BC. This winter festival lasts eight days and an extra flame is lit for each night of the festival.

Torah Silver breastplate in Czechoslovakian repoussé silver 1928 circa. High quality embossed and chiseled silver sheet in the shape of a shield, it has two lateral scrolls starting from an oval cartouche with Jewish inscriptions, above which there is a horizontal hollow  accessible from the back through the sliding of a lamina. In the center, two splendid lions of Judas with their heads turned outwards hold the two tables surmounted by the star of David. In the upper part, a rich drapery of a curtain within an arched frame topped by a non-relevant crown fixed to the plaque by three riveted thorns. At the lower left of the tableau we find the mark in an oval field with a point facing downwards and the profile of a woman with a covered head and the number 3 relative to the silver works with a title of 800/000 from 1922 to 1929 in Czechoslovakia. On the right in the square, the initials A P refer to the silvermaker. Inside the tableau an Yiddish inscription: Ezechiele Adler 1928  77 years old. It weighs 380 grams, good age related condition.