ATTRIBUTED TO GEORG FRIEDRICH SPEYER (W. CIRCA 1780-1803), BERKS COUNTY, DAUPHIN, LANCASTER AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1786

Birth and Baptismal Certificate for John Jacob Miller, Berks County

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ATTRIBUTED TO GEORG FRIEDRICH SPEYER (W. CIRCA 1780-1803), BERKS COUNTY, DAUPHIN, LANCASTER AND NORTHAMPTON COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA, DATED 1786
Birth and Baptismal Certificate for John Jacob Miller, Berks County
13x16in. sight

Provenance

Sold in these rooms, The Pennsylvania German Folk Art and Decorative Arts from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Flack, 6 September 1997, lot 199

Lot Essay

George Frederich Speyer came to America in 1752 and was active in 1780-1803 in Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster and Northampton counties. He was thought to have been a school master, but the volume of surviving works attest to his vocation as a printer. Speyer is known to have served in a Berks County regiment during the Revolutionary war and he may have also worked for or with fraktur printer Heinrich Otto.

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