1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed lifeguard As the story goes

As the story goes

who signed the mat to which the piece is taped from behind

recessed sides

30 pages of drawings (in this case I mean 30 page faces)

but the paint on the rest of it

1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed lifeguard As the story goesI'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