Glorious 1850 Pennsylvania German Fraktur Watercolor Bookplate with Pointing Hand, Berks County cows Professionally framed not too long

Professionally framed not too long ago

I'd call this great old tin and wood toy candlestick telephone a teaching toy--and increasingly so

usually in two or three shades of velvet

Plenty of wear to exterior and spine

sometime long ago

Glorious 1850 Pennsylvania German Fraktur Watercolor Bookplate with Pointing Hand, Berks County cows Professionally framed not too longPhotos 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