George W. Gruber's Double-sided Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor with Birds and Flowers old hand-painted side perhaps--en route to leading the

perhaps--en route to leading the free world

Of course Barnum's beauties were complete inventions

I found a large barbed wire ball a few years ago

which has accrued the  warmest and richest dry patina over the past 150+ years

Graphite and crayon

George W. Gruber's Double-sided Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor with Birds and Flowers old hand-painted side perhaps--en route to leading theIt's quite a lucky week when I've found two fraktur watercolors and this one double sided to boot! And I think both sides are equally good, both with birds and flowers happily floating between two panes of glass in the frame, so that one can enjoy them both. With the reverse side signed proudly by a George W. Gruber (I believe it is Gruber) I have found numerous Gruber's from Pennsylvania, where this was surely done, including a George W. who died in