$8,625
Johann Adam Eyer(Perkasie School, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, active 1780-1820) - Fraktur bookplate, hand-drawn watercolor and ink on laid paper, for Peter Detweiler, Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, dated 1791, with central script surmounted by 2 angels blowing trumpets and flanked by birds, tulip branches, and tulips in the lower corners, 4" x 6 3/8". For similar examples, see Bucks County Fraktur by Cory Amsler, fig. 217 and 220; and The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia , plates 828 and 837.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08