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Lot 1233
Sale 977 - American Furniture, Folk and Decorative Arts, Session II
Oct 7, 2021
10:00AM ET
Online / Cincinnati
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$200 -
400
Lot Description
A Pennsylvania German Engraved and Polychrome Decorated Baptism Fraktur
G.S. Peters, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1848
with central text reading in translation To these living spouses, Heinrich Tafel and his wife Barbra, the daughter of Friedrich Womeldorf, a son is born to this world, on the 3rd day of May in the year of our Lord 1842. This son is born in Miles Township, in Center County, in the state of Pennsylvania in North America, and is to be baptized and given the name Franklin Tafel.
having blank space to record the names of the baptismal witnesses
set in a modern heart and grain-paint decorated frame.
Sight 15 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches.
having blank space to record the names of the baptismal witnesses
set in a modern heart and grain-paint decorated frame.
Sight 15 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches.
Property from the Dean Lower Estate, Lanark, Illinois

