Sold for:
$1,955
$1,955
Southeastern Pennsylvania bookmark , hand-drawn watercolor and ink on paper with a red, yellow, and black tulip tree within a black lined border, 4" x 2 3/8". Provenance: Levi Yoder Collection, Silverdale, Bucks County, Pa. Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Iluminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 51. For similar examples, see The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia , plates 590, 652, 666, and 674.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08