Sold for:
$3,645
$3,645
Anthony Rehm (Milford Township, Pennsylvania, active 1818-1825) , rare watercolor and ink on laid paper birth and baptismal certificate for Elias Hettich, dated 1818 , Bucks County, with a central large heart with scalloped border enclosing script, surrounded by tulip vines, birds, running stags, and two lower hearts, all decorations outlined with pinprick designs, signed in heart Anton Rehm , later text by Martin Wetzler, 12 1/4" x 15 1/2". Pictured in Amsler, Bucks County Fraktur , fig. 198 and in The Magazine Antiques , April 1998, pg. 591. Exhibition: Mercer Museum, Bucks County Fraktur , 1997-1998.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2012-10-27
