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Lot 7

Johann Henrich Otto(Lancaster and Northumberland C

Estimate: $5,000 - $7,000
Sold for
$2,340
Sold Price includes BP

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Johann Henrich Otto(Lancaster and Northumberland Counties, active 1762-1797) - Haus-segen, hand-drawn and colored on a printed form, dated 1785, with central large heart surrounded by small hearts, all with hand-drawn scalloped borders, within border of elaborate red, green, and blue hand-drawn birds, stylized flowers, tulips, and trailing vines, 17" x 13" (losses). For similar examples, see The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia, plates 283 and 284, and Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 190. For artist information, see Papers for Birth Dayes by Earnest, pages 594-600.