Record of Birth & Baptism [Pennsylvania German taufschein].
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Illustrated and color printed birth and baptismal certificate or taufschein. The center of the unused certificate is overprinted in saturated colors. The printer, Theodore F. Scheffer, apprenticed with Gustav S. Peters, a pioneer of multiblock color wood engravings. (Yoder, et al.)
Wood engraved decorations display stock printer’s cuts. Images of the bald eagle and shield of the United States are seen with those from the Bible and poetical verses appear at top and bottom. OCLC, Yale only.
Description: Record of Birth & Baptism [Pennsylvania German taufschein].
Harrisburg, Penn’a: Printed and for Sale by Theo. F. Scheffer, [c.1850s?]. 16¾ x 13 inches. Decorative border and vignette illustrations; center portion overprinted in three colors. Faint fold lines; even toning; near fine with bright coloring.
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