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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],
[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 1724: Hand Painted Milk Glass Barber's Bottle
- Hand Painted Milk Glass Barber's Bottle belonging to "S. G. Zerfass", light blue painted ground with small scrolled ribbon having white back ground and outlined in brown with brown lettering - "S. G. Zerfass", ribbon is surrounded by hand painted daisy floral design, brown striping around sides, round shape with sides tapering toward a concave shoulder with a high cylindrical neck ends in a threaded collar, 9-1/2"H. [Provenance: purchased at public auction, Horst Auction Center, the estate auction of the belongings of Mary (nee Shimp) Zerfass wife of Theodore Zerfass son of Rev. Zerfass. This bottle belonged to the Rev. Samuel G. Zerfass (d. 1929), last minister of the German Seventh Day Baptist Congregation at the Ephrata Cloister.]
