Very Fine and Rare Fraktur Birth and Baptismal Certificate of Amos BauerChristopher Seiler (d. 1822)Dauphin County, PennsylvaniaDated 1807 Signed at bottom C. Seiler.13 1/4 in. by 16 in.ProvenanceJames and Nancy Glazer, Bailey Island, Maine.ExhibitedWinterthur, Delaware, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, A Colorful Folk Pennsylvania Germans and the Art of Everyday Life, March 2015-January 2016.Catalogue noteAmos Bauer (Bower), born March 19, 1807, married Leah Longenecker Bauer (Bower) (1812-1982), and died on March 10, 1854. A baptismal certificate for Justina Bauer also by Christopher Seiler is illustrated and discussed by Lisa Minardi, Drawn with Sprit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 321, no. 151. Only approximately six known examples of Seiler's work are known.
Very Fine and Rare Fraktur Birth and Baptismal Certificate of Amos BauerChristopher Seiler (d. 1822)Dauphin County, PennsylvaniaDated 1807 Signed at bottom C. Seiler.13 1/4 in. by 16 in.ProvenanceJames and Nancy Glazer, Bailey Island, Maine.ExhibitedWinterthur, Delaware, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, A Colorful Folk Pennsylvania Germans and the Art of Everyday Life, March 2015-January 2016.Catalogue noteAmos Bauer (Bower), born March 19, 1807, married Leah Longenecker Bauer (Bower) (1812-1982), and died on March 10, 1854. A baptismal certificate for Justina Bauer also by Christopher Seiler is illustrated and discussed by Lisa Minardi, Drawn with Sprit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 321, no. 151. Only approximately six known examples of Seiler's work are known.
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