$40,250
Bucks or Montgomery County, Pennsylvania small fraktur bookmark, ca. 1800 , hand-drawn watercolor and ink on paper drawing of a pelican feeding her 3 young, each with red heads, and red and yellow feathers, the mother perched on a branch, the young in a green nest, over a lower cartouche with script all within a red, yellow, and green striped border with blocked corners, 4" x 2 1/2". Provenance: Levi Yoder Collection. Pictured in Fraktur Writings or Illuminated Manuscripts by Dr. Donald A. Shelley, plate 51. For a nearly identical example, see The Pennsylvania German Fraktur of the Free Library of Philadelphia , plate 150.
Auctioneer:
Pook & Pook
Date:
2004-10-08