1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed lifeguard and a fabulous hat with

and a fabulous hat with a feather or two

which add another decorative element

I don't know who made this unsigned vase

As the story goes

1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed lifeguard and a fabulous hat withI'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