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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],
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Item Spohn 1727: Redware Deep Pie Plate],
[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 1728: Tin Teapot
- Tin Teapot with hinged conical-shaped lid having a small double scrolled tin finial, pot has a flat bottom with straight sides tapering toward top rim, tapered stick spout having a stamped rayed motif around spout on side of pot, tin handle mount on side of pot and fitted with a turned walnut wood handle with simple incised line banding, 5-1/8"DIA at base, 9-1/2"H. [Provenance: originally from the Ephrata Cloister, purchased at the public auction at Farmersville Fire Hall, T. Glenn Horst & Son, 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.]
