1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed vintage house numbers It shows some paint loss

It shows some paint loss and a little rust too

whose head is very large in proportion to the rest of his body

shuttlecock

folded at  every other cut to form diamonds within the larger diamond (or an eight pointed star

1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed vintage house numbers It shows some paint lossI'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