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AN EARLY JEWISH NATIONAL FUND CHARITY BOX WITH AN INCREDIBLE STORY. American, c. 1910. Embossed with

AN EARLY JEWISH NATIONAL FUND CHARITY BOX WITH AN INCREDIBLE STORY. American, c. 1910. Embossed with a Jewish star with a lion in the center. With the insignia in Hebrew of the KKL and Keren Kayemet LeYisroel spelled out on the bottom. The prior owner relates the following story: “My family came to the USA over a period starting in 1910. My Grandfather, Abraham (Avrom) Borofsky, came in 1915, and his wife, my Grandmother and their family followed in 1917 all eventually landing in Kansas City, Mo. My Grandfather and his brother Jacob opened a Kosher meat market in Kansas City in the same year. Then, my grandfather and uncle Jacob, answered a wanted ad in the newspaper in 1921 from the growing Jewish community in Tulsa, Ok, who were looking for a Kosher butcher. They moved their families to Tulsa in either late 1921 or 1922. My grandfather was not only the new Kosher butcher, but because of his orthodox practice, he became a cantor for a secondary shul created in 1923 who were not comfortable with the conservative practices of the existing shul. This JNF box was in his study from 1923 till his death 1940, when it went into a box and eventually came to my father. While going through my father’s estate, I discovered this box after his death in 2018”