Passover manuscript sets £210,000 record

Cheshire auctioneers Adam Partridge set a house record when this newly discovered copy of the Passover Haggadah written and illuminated by the celebrated 18th century scribe Aaron Wolf Herlingen sold for £210,000.

Bill Forrest, valuer at the Macclesfield firm, was first shown a box of Jewish prayer books when pre…

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