1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed inuit soapstone carving published by Reinhold Publishing Co

published by Reinhold Publishing Co

readily hung now from a nail on the wall

11 1/2" tall x 8" diameter at widest

Here are two--the dark one (a dark blue-gray) I think was maybe a hand-sander

1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed inuit soapstone carving published by Reinhold Publishing CoI've always admired early Pennsylvania German fraktur marriage certificates like this one, engraved then enhanced by hand with watercolor (and of course with the names and details of the marrying couple written in.) But it is the very joyful and especially colorful painting on this one, dated 1843, that made me jump on it most of all the wonderful polka dots decorating the robe of our angel at left! (And within a day of finding this, I found a school