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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],
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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],
[Item Spohn 2224: Hand-carved Woodcut of Initial Block "W", c. 1764],
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- Item Spohn 2224: Hand-carved Woodcut of Initial Block "W", c. 1764
- Circa 1764 hand-carved woodcut of initial block "W" with an early sail ship in background with a serpent scrolled up along the inside of the letter W's right leg, 2-5/8" square, 13/16" high, the left edge of the block has a 1-1/4" diagonal crack extending in from the block's side and shows evidence of having been exposed to fire on its back, the back has overall erratic gouge marks. [Provenance: The woodcut was acquired from Clarence Wolf of George S. MacManus Co., Bryn Mawr, Pa., agent for the owner Michael Zinman of Ardsley, New York. Mr. Zinman acquired the woodcut at Sotheby's Auction House, New York,at their Jun. 26, 2001 auction (one of a lot of printer's woodcuts). The woodcut was used in the printing of a broadside entitled "Lebens-Regul Wie sie zu Rom aus Pabstlichen Befehl an der Pabstlichen Cantzley-Thur angeschrieben Stehet..." attributed to the press of the Ephrata Brotherhood by Charles Hildeburn, ca. 1764. The broadside is described by Doll and Funke as containing eighteen rules in Latin and German taken from the Bible, with footnotes indicating the Bible test; followed by a German poem of eighteen lines in two columns, paraphrasing the above rules. The broadside is reportedly folio in size. Two copies of the broadside were known to exist, one in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (unable to locate in late 1980s) and a second in the American Baptist Historical Society, Chester, Pa. (located in 1944 by Funke & Doll, historical society no longer known to exist), Broadside identified as Doll/Funke #405, Hildeburn #2010 and Evans #9709. The woodcut is listed in Reilly's "A Dictionary of Colonial American Printers' Ornaments & Illustrations" published in 1975 by the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass., page 66, illustration #351.]
