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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],
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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],
[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 1727: Redware Deep Pie Plate
- Redware Deep Pie Plate, round with flat bottom with large incised "Z", sides are straight and flare out to a broad molded rim, interior is glazed resulting in a dark brown ground, 10-3/16"DIA, 2-3/8"H. [Provenance: Originally from the Ephrata Cloister, purchased at T. Glenn Horst & Son public auction, consigned to the auction by Mrs. Mary (nee Shimp) Zerfass, wife of Theodore Zerfass one of the last members of the Ephrata Cloister. Several of these plates had descended in the Zerfass family and shards with the letter "Z" on have also been excavated at the Ephrata Cloister.]
