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By Rachel Grove Rohrbaugh
Collection Overview
Title: Clarence Spohn Ephrata Collection Artifacts
Predominant Dates:c. 1750-1800
ID: RG01/Art-0004
Primary Creator: Ephrata Cloister
Extent: 8.0 Items
Date Acquired: 04/00/2019
Scope and Contents of the Materials
Item descriptions and numbers taken from Spohn's personal inventory.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Earl H. and Anita F. Hess Archives and Special Collections
Acquisition Method:
Purchase by the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
Related Materials:
For more information please see https://libraryguides.etown.edu/spohn.
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Item:
[Item Spohn 1675: Softwood Love Feast or Communion Waiter or Tray],
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Item Spohn 1676: Turned Walnut Bread Paten, c. 1780],
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Item Spohn 1677: Turned Walnut Communion Chalice, c. 1780],
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Item Spohn 1724: Hand Painted Milk Glass Barber's Bottle],
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Item Spohn 1727: Redware Deep Pie Plate],
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Item Spohn 1728: Tin Teapot],
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Item Spohn 2130: Hand-carved Wooden Printer's Woodcut of the Seal of the Ephrata Community, 1766],
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Item Spohn 2224: Hand-carved Woodcut of Initial Block "W", c. 1764],
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- Item Spohn 1675: Softwood Love Feast or Communion Waiter or Tray
- Softwood Love Feast or Communion Waiter or Tray, made by Samuel Zerfass (born 1802, died 1872), Ephrata, Pa. for the German Seventh Day Baptist Congregation at Ephrata, rectangular shape with applied gallery across back and sides, side rails with oval cutout handle, gallery rails are nailed to bottom, gallery rails are dovetailed in back corners, 31"W x 18-1/4"D x 3-3/8"H. [Provenance: originally from the Ephrata Cloister, purchased at the public auction at Farmersville Fire Hall, T. Glenn Horst & Son, Inc., consigned by Daniel S. & Viola Kachel, Ephrata, Pa., Mr. Kachel was one of the last eleven members of the Ephrata Cloister and until 1969 lived on the grounds of the Ephrata Cloister with his father Reuben Kachel. Daniel Kachel's mother was M. Kathryn (nee Zerfass) Kachel (b. 1882, d. 1953) the granddaughter of the maker Samuel Zerfass (b. 1803, d. 1872). This tray along with a second identical tray in the collection of the historic Ephrata Cloister descended in the Zerfass family. In the early 1960s Mr. Kachel donated one of the two trays to the Ephrata Cloister in memory of his late mother and retained the second. According to the account book of Samuel Zerfass in the collection of the Ephrata Cloister the "2 waiters" were made for the Ephrata Society at a cost of 56 1/2 cents each. (Reference "Journal of The Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley", Volume XV, 1990, pages 15-16.).]
