1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed vintage house numbers a "titan of real estate

a "titan of real  estate in Boston for six decades" who

whose students made them in the early 1970s

whose head is very large in proportion to the rest of his body

with lots and lots of deep blue full page star maps in it

1843 Beautifully Hand-colored Pennsylvania Fraktur Marriage Certificate, Framed vintage house numbers a "titan of real estateI've always admired early Pennsylvania German fraktur marriage certificates like this one, engraved then enhanced by hand with watercolor (and of course with the names and details of the marrying couple written in.) But it is the very joyful and especially colorful painting on this one, dated 1843, that made me jump on it most of all the wonderful polka dots decorating the robe of our angel at left! (And within a day of finding this, I found a school