Glorious 1850 Pennsylvania German Fraktur Watercolor Bookplate with Pointing Hand, Berks County print on board A grid of 27 blue

A grid of 27 blue eyes watching/staring back

with a second clover shaped shelf underneath

3 1/8" d corner to corner

all done by hand

which feels like a cousin of a Schoenhut circus drum

Glorious 1850 Pennsylvania German Fraktur Watercolor Bookplate with Pointing Hand, Berks County print on board A grid of 27 bluePhotos don't quite do justice to the richness and radiance of the color on this 1850 Pennsylvania German fraktur bookplate I find it just glorious. The lower half reads "In Ober [Upper] Bern Township, Berks County, 1850." The upper portion is the name of its owner I read it as Eleisa Mager, but I think I may have a letter or two wrong as I've not found a match; perhaps Mayer? (Surely someone better at reading fraktur lettering than I am can figure it