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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:
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Item Spohn 1675: Softwood Love Feast or Communion Waiter or Tray],
[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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All]
- Item Spohn 1676: Turned Walnut Bread Paten, c. 1780
- Mid-to-Late Eighteenth Century Turned Walnut Bread Paten originally from the Ephrata Cloister and later from the Snow Hill Community, Quincy, Franklin Co., Pa., two piece, pedestaled base with round foot with concentric turnings on top surface of foot, round tray with molded edge, 10-3/16" x 9-5/8"3-7/8"H. [Provenance: purchased at public auction held at Horst Auction Center, of the contents of the "Snow Hill Nunnery", Quincy, Franklin Co., Pa. Originally from the Ephrata Cloister congregation and transferred to the Snow Hill Congregation along with chalice #1677 in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Originally part of a communion service consisting of two walnut chalices, two cherry chalices and two walnut pattens, one of each have remained at the Ephrata Cloister while their mates were sent to Snow Hill. This walnut patten and the walnut chalice #1677 were sold at the public auction of the contents of the Snow Hill Nunnery in August 1997.
