$4,140
Johann Jacob Friederich Krebs(Dauphin County and Bucks County, Pennsylvania, active 1784-1812) - Printed, hand-drawn, lettered and colored birth certificate on laid paper with applied cutouts of embossed paper, done for Anna Catharina Kramer, 1804, Rockhill Township, Bucks County, with central heart enclosing script surrounded by various hand-drawn designs including a crown and flowers, cutouts of religious figures, hunters, angels, etc. , 12 7/8" x 16". Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donnald A. Shelley, plate 9; and Bucks County Fraktur by Cory Amsler, fig. 161. For similar example, see Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 90. For artist information, see Papers for Birth Dayes by Corinne and Russell Earnest, pages 460-467.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08
