The Royal Moel and Mighty Mouse

Staying at home is a pain the ass but it does  have some rewards.
I dig deeper on Ebay   America ,Ebay U.K. and Ebay Germany
It is an investment in time which sometimes pays off.
Here is something that pleases  and amuses me.

If your eye sight is excellent you might see some Hebrew script in the center of the bookplate.
Frankly I do not know how I spotted it. My eyesight is not so good.
                                                                  Here is a better scan.

I Googled the owner Jacob Snowman M.D.and found this:

"Jacob Snowman (24 November 1871 – 28 February 1959)^[1] was a British medical doctor and mohel, notable for having circumcised Charles, Prince of Wales in December 1948, and possibly other members of the British nobility and Royal Family.

Snowman was the son of Abraham Snowman (1849–1918), a picture dealer, and his wife Rachel, both of whom were born in Poland. He was the older brother to both painter Isaac Snowman (1873-1947) and jeweler Emanuel Snowman (1886-1970), who married into the prominent Wartski family of jewelers and became the company chairman. Wartski has enjoyed generations of Royal patronage, supplying the Welsh gold wedding bands for Charles and the former Camilla Parker-Bowles, as well as the bands worn by Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and the former Kate Middleton.^[4]

John Cozijn and Robert Darby, who is an historian of the British circumcision movement, have suggested that the British Royal Family invited Rabbi Snowman ("rabbi" is an honorific commonly afforded to mohels) to circumcise the infant Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace most likely because of his extensive experience with circumcision, and perhaps because non-Jewish family physicians were deemed less familiar or adept with the procedure (which was widely performed on British middle- and upper-class male infants from the 1890s through the 1940s).^[Darby and Cozijn have cast doubt on claims, arising in the 1990s and widely reported after the birth of Prince George of Cambridge in 2013, that a Royal Family "circumcision tradition" extends back to Queen Victoria's era, or even to George I in the early 18th century,^[2][6] grounded in secretive Davidic or British Israelist religious tradition.^[3] It is unknown whether this putative "circumcision tradition" was continued with the birth of William in 1982, as Diana, Princess of Wales is believed to have disapproved of it.^[2][6]

Snowman wrote specialist articles and at least four books, including Jewish Law and Sanitary Science (1896),[1] Clinical Surgical Diagnosis (Second English Edition, 1917),[2] Lenzmann's Manual of Emergencies, Medical, Surgical and Obstetric: their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment (1919, based upon Emergencies in Medical Practice by Richard Lenzmann [de]), a revised Manual of Emergencies, Medical, Surgical, and Obstetric (1926),[4] A Short History of Talmudic Medicine (with thirteen editions between 1935 and 1974), and The Surgery of Ritual Circumcision (1904). The latter book was published in at least three distinct editions, the last appearing posthumously in 1962 under the co-authorship of his son Leonard Snowman (1900-1976)."

I collect Judaica bookplates and ephemera but I am illiterate  so I often seek help from friends

 I contacted Israeli Mizrahi  my prime source for Judaica bookplates and got this response.

Hi Lew 

it is actually a verse from Ecclesiastes שמר רוח לא יזרע

"Whoever watches the wind will not plant"

          Mizrahi Book Store
             3114 Quentin Rd
             Brooklyn NY 11234
             347-492-6508   

          antique, used, rare &

             out of print Jewish Books

            http://judaicaused.com/

In a follow up he sent this message

Hi Lew

Just postulating, but it is likely that the verse alludes to his profession:

the full Hebrew verse is שמר רוח לא יזרע וראה בעבים לא יקצור

the word יזרע is the same word used to denote offspring and יקצור can also mean to snip or cut, being the act of circumcising.

Here is another recent Ebay find:

Terry was raised in San Francisco and in 1904 he began working as a news photographer and began to draw cartoons for newspapers. He contributed, along with his brother, John, to a weekly comic strip about a dog titled "Alonzo" for the San Francisco Call. He later transferred to the New York Press, a newspaper in New York City.

In 1914, Terry became interested in animation after seeing Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur. While still working for the newspaper, he made his first film, Little Herman, which he completed and sold to the Thanhouser film company of New Rochelle, New York in 1915.^{[citation needed]}

Later that year, he completed his second film, Down on the Phoney Farm. There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Terry attempted to sell his cartoon to a producer who made a small offer for the film. When Terry told him that the offer was less than his production costs, the producer supposedly replied, "I'd had paid more if you hadn't put those pictures on there!"^[

J. R. Bray Studios

In 1916, he began working at Bray Productions, directing and producing a series of eleven Farmer Al Falfa films.^[Before the end of the year, Terry left Bray, taking the rights to Farmer Al Falfa with him.

Paul Terry Productions

In 1917, Terry formed his own production company, "Paul Terry Productions" and produced nine more animated films, including one Farmer Al Falfa film. Terry closed his studio to join the United States Army and fought in World War I.^{[citation needed]}

Fables Pictures

In 1920, Terry entered into a partnership with Amadee J. Van Beuren, and founded Fables Pictures. During this time, he began producing a series of Aesop's Film Fables as well as new Farmer Al Falfa films under that banner. Terry experimented with the sound process in a Fable Cartoon called Dinner Time after pressure from Van Beuren, released in September 1928, two months before Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie was released in November 1928.^[

Terry's partnership with Van Beuren lasted until 1929, when Terry and Van Beuren disagreed over the switch to producing films with sound. Terry started up the Terrytoons studio in the "K" Building in downtown New Rochelle, New York, where the Thanhouser film company, purchasers of Terry's first films, was also located. Van Beuren retained "Fables Pictures" and renamed it "Van Beuren Studios".^{[citation needed]}

Terrytoons

Terry's Terrytoons produced a large number of animated films, including Gandy Goose, Mighty Mouse, Heckle and Jeckle, and many other lesser-known characters.^[Theatrical distribution was at first through Educational Pictures and then, after it was acquired in 1937, through 20th Century Fox. One of his works produced during this time, called The Three Bears, gained internet fame almost 70 years later when one of its scenes became an Internet meme.

Terry was quick to adopt techniques that simplified the animation process, but he resisted "improvements" that complicated production. He was one of the first to make use of "cel animation", including animation of separate body parts. His studio was slow to switch to synchronized sound tracks and to color. He managed to keep his studio profitable while others went out of business. Terry was once quoted as saying, "Disney is the Tiffany of animation. I'm the Woolworth."^[

Heraldry Question

Dear Lew Jaffe,

My nephew,  suggested that I get in touch with you.  He says you may be one of the few people in the world able to answer my questions on a particular book plate.

The book plate in question is the personal book plate of Bishop Philip R. McDevitt when he was Bishop of Harrisburg.

Note From Lew 
I am always pleased to assist readers .Unfortunately, heraldry is not  one of my strengths
Perhaps one of you can assist Dr. Rempe.
Please respond directly to him.
His email is  rhrempe@comcast.net

BOOK PLATE

EXPLANATION OF BOOK PLATE

The pioneer Conestoga wagon moving up-state through

the diocese of Harrisburg into the wilderness, the modest

school, and the more becoming house of prayer that grad-

ually followed, adumbrate and symbolize the historical,

scholastic, and church leanings and tastes in books and

reading which a Bishop should manifest.

The quotation is from the beloved Philobiblon, chapter XV

by Richard Aungerville (Richard de Bury): “You, O

Books are golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the

clerical militia with which the missels of the most wicked

are destroyed: fruitfull olives, vines of Engaddi, fig trees

knowing no sterility: burning lamps to be ever held in the

hand.”

The lamps that are kept burning suggest the “aptate

lampades” of the Catholic Girls’ High School, Philadelphia.

I was a member of the faculty of Bishop McDevitt High School, Harrisburg, PA for some 44 years and never realized that the shield shown on the book plate  was the official  seal of the high school, when it was Harrisburg Catholic High School and when it was re-named as Bishop McDevitt High School. Said shield is NOT taken from Bishop Philip's episcopal arms, but seems to be a portion (about one-third of the bottom part)  taken from his book plate:

TAKEN FROM FROM THE PERSONAL BOOK PLATE:

THE SCHOOL SEAL:

THE EPISCOPAL ARMS OF BISHOP PHILIP R. MCDEVITT, AS BISHOP OF HARRISBURG:

I seek the answers to many questions , especially the following questions:

1. Who do you think may be the artist or etcher for the bishop's book plate? Could it have been Pierre de Chaignon la Rose? (la Rose is most probably the originator of the episcopal and Diocesan arms).

2. Do you know what the bishop used as his symbolism for his book plate?

3. Why did he use part of his book plate for the seal of the  high school which would later bear his name?

Thank you for any help,

I remain,

Sincerely yours,

Robert H. Rempe, Ph. D.