#3056 • Samuel Bentz (1792-1850)

Part of Fine and Decorative Arts | June 10, 2021 at 12:00 PM (live auction by Alderfer Auction)

High bid $650.00

Status: Sold

Samuel Bentz (1792-1850), Mount Pleasant Fraktur Artist, Lancaster County, PA. Birth Record for Catarina Boffemyer, born December 31, 1835. Watercolor and ink on laid paper, symmetrical columns with yellow and red pointed oval repeat surmounted with dark swirl balls. Centered between columns is Fraktur script (see below) with yellow and red swirl oval motif above and stylized tulips below script. Pastor Fredrick Weiser authenticated and appraised Fraktur, 1994. Aslso includes secondary publications.  Fraktur Text: Catarina Boffemyer/Tochter von Wilhelm/Boffemyer und Seiner/Ehefrau Ann Geborne/Mellinger Wurde/Geboren Den 31 ten tag/December 1835 English Translation: "Catarina Boffemyer/Daughter of Wilhelm/Boffemyer and his wife Ann Geborne Mellinger was/born the 31st day December 1835"