1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed lifeguard but the paint on the

but the paint on the rest of it

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

and a fabulous hat with a feather or two

which add another decorative element

long is 4 7/8" long

1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed lifeguard but the paint on theI'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