SOLD C. Mid 19th Century German Manuscript Devotional with Fraktur Lettering and Amazing Drawings rare trade card Among my favorite recent snapshot

Among my favorite recent snapshot finds--what a proud and poetic portrait

Definitely a good one for placing at the center of the mantle and arranging other things around

So lovely and special feeling

And a pretty great face it is

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SOLD C. Mid 19th Century German Manuscript Devotional with Fraktur Lettering and Amazing Drawings rare trade card Among my favorite recent snapshotI often regret not having taken German, if only to be able to properly read beautiful German and Pennsylvania German fraktur lettering, but the beauty of this manuscript certainly transcends written language, and perhaps feels all the holier for my lack of capacity to readily translate it! It is what I believe would properly be described as a devotional (a prayer book, but infused with personal reflections, meditations etc.) With the assistance of AI,