Besamim (spice box), 19th c.

This besamim box, a container for fragrant spices and herbs used at the end of the weekly Shabbat celebration, originally belonged to Emanuel Falk, whose bar mitzvah speech was showcased earlier. One of his descendants, Siegfried Falk, emigrated from Breslau in 1936 and took the box with him, first to Copenhagen, then to London, and finally to New Zealand, where he set up a new life. After his death, the box passed into the hands of members of the Falk family in the United States.