A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED GEBURTSCHEIN

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A WATERCOLOR AND INK DECORATED GEBURTSCHEIN
LANCASTER COUNTY, CIRCA 1813

The central vertical text with the birth record of Johannes Konig, born 16 September 1779 in Berks County, and Barbara Fischer, born 20 June 1779 in Chester County, their subsequent marriage and the birth of their daughter in Lampeter Township, Lancaster County 1 May 1813, the whole flanked at each side by meandering orange, pink, green, red, blue and gold decorated flowers, leaves and stars and above by a purple, blue, green, red, brown and yellow decorated chains and below by tulips and flowers--12½ x 7½in.

拍品专文

For two related fraktur, see Heaney and Weiser, figs. 427 and 428.