1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed vintage house numbers with the expression on this

with the expression on this young man's face seeming as if aware of being dislocated in time

but I think all to the good

It shows some paint loss and a little rust too

whose head is very large in proportion to the rest of his body

indicating that these were actively used

1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed vintage house numbers with the expression on thisI'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