Bidspirit auction | Somerset County, Pennsylvania Ink and

Somerset County, Pennsylvania Ink and Watercolor Fraktur: Birth Record - A Somerset County, Pennsylvania Ink and Watercolor Fraktur: Geburts und Taufschein (Birth and Baptismal Certificate), Dated 1819 Decorated with suns, moons, lions and a windmill. Having eleven lines of text inscribed, ”Unto these two parents John and / Mary Baker was born a Son / on the fourth day of April in the year of our / Lord One Thousand eight hundred / and nineteen and was baptized by the Rev. Hyre / the Parents being the Sponcers and giving the child / the name of George in Southampton Township / Somerset County / and State of  Pensylvania”. In an ebonized wood frame. Dimensions: Paper 12 1/4in x 14 1/4in; Frame 18 1/4in x 20 1/2in.  Provenance:  From a Philadelphia Collection.  Condition: Not examined out of the frame. Strong creases, tears. There is a 1in x 1/2in hole at the upper right quadrant.