New Fraktur Record
Maine Antique Digest
by Lita Solis-Cohen
"'There are pieces that come along once in a generation, and this is the piece,' said Westborough, Massachusetts, dealer David Wheatcroft after he paid $366,750 (includes buyer's premium) at Freeman's in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 24, for a verse from a Hymn to the Nightingale, an ink and watercolor Pennsylvania German fraktur signed and dated 'Gr. Geistweit, 5 June 1801.'"
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