January 16, 2020 The Susquehanna Collection
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/16/2020
This certificate records the birth of Scharlotta Deibler on March 2, 1771, in Upper Paxton Township, Lancaster (now Dauphin County), Pennsylvania, to Matthias and Maria Barbara Deibler and her subsequent baptism by Pastor Michael Enderlein. A related fraktur was made by the same artist for her brother Matthias Deibler Jr. and is in the collection of Winterhur Museum, acc. no. 1957.1187. Little is known of fraktur artist Johann Frieferich Mencke, formerly known as the Lykens Valley Artist, who worked in the Lykens Valley of norther Dauphin County as well as the nearby Mahantongo Valley in Northumberland and Schuylkill counties. For the related fraktur made for Matthias Deibler Jr., see Lisa Minardi, "Henrich Otto and Sons: Fraktur Artists and Furniture Decorators" in "Der Roggeboge: Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society", vol. 49, no. 2 (2015), p. 63. On Mencke, see Earnest, "Papers for Birth Dayes", vol. 2, p. 525; also Earnest, "Fraktur-Fest II" in "Der Roggeboge: Journal of the Pennsylvania German Society", vol. 41, no. 2 (2007), pp. 15 - 17. CONDITION: Not examined out of frame. Losses and toning.
Item Dimensions: Frame: 12" x 16 - 1/2".