The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill

The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill

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Very Fine and Rare Fraktur Birth and Baptismal Certificate of Amos Bauer, Christopher Seiler (d. 1822), Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, Dated 1807

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January 23, 10:36 PM GMT

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8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Very Fine and Rare Fraktur Birth and Baptismal Certificate of Amos Bauer

Christopher Seiler (d. 1822)

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

Dated 1807


Signed at bottom C. Seiler.

13 1/4 in. by 16 in.

James and Nancy Glazer, Bailey Island, Maine.
Winterthur, Delaware, Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, A Colorful Folk Pennsylvania Germans and the Art of Everyday Life, March 2015-January 2016.
Amos Bauer (Bower), born March 19, 1807, married Leah Longenecker Bauer (Bower) (1812-1982), and died on March 10, 1854.  A baptismal certificate for Justina Bauer also by Christopher Seiler is illustrated and discussed by Lisa Minardi, Drawn with Sprit: Pennsylvania German Fraktur from the Joan and Victor Johnson Collection, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2015), p. 321, no. 151. Only approximately six known examples of Seiler's work are known.