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old die stampings

45 inches x 15 inches

Wrap closure

75 inches (open)

Grow Old with Me (Small) by Susan Daul freshandexperimental2017 old die stampingsFraktur is both a style of lettering and a highly artistic and elaborate illuminated folk art that was influenced by European folk culture. Here in America, the Pennsylvania Germans practiced Fraktur art from the mid 18th to the mid 19th centuries. Fraktur blossomed into a uniquely rich, colorful and iconographic form of expression and were tied to rites of social life, such as birth and baptismal certificates, marriage and house blessings, book

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