Torah Shield

Tobias Völsch

Late 17th Century

Torah shield decorated with vine-wrapped columns on either side, crowns across the top, and three smaller shields hanging from bottom.
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Tobias Völsch

17th Century

Tobias Völsch was a silversmith active in Hamburg, Germany in the late seventeenth century.

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