Property from the Collection of Leslie and Peter Warwick, Middletown, New Jersey
Fraktur Matrimonial Record for John I. Post and Mary Bartrim, Bergen County, New Jersey, 1816
No reserve
Auction Closed
January 25, 06:34 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
watercolor and ink on paper
11 ½ in. by 13 ½ in.
inscribed John Post Born Decem. 20th 1796. Maria Batrim Born Nov. 6th, 1796. They Joined (hands) and (2 hearts) in holy Matrimony August 29th, 1816
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Peter Tillou, Litchfield, Connecticut;
David Wheatcroft, Massachusetts, 2015.
Leslie and Peter Warwick, Love At First Sight: Discovering Stories About Folk Art & Antiques Collected by Two Generations & Three Families, (New Jersey: 2022), p. 214, fig. 376.
John I. Post and Mary Bartrim, both born in 1796, married in 1815 and had six children. John was a farmer in Franklin, Bergen County, New Jersey. The matrimonial record is by the same hand that painted Sibel Cobb’s birth record from Morris County, see lot 120 in the Americana online sale. Both records have a pair of red breasted and blue winged birds and similar flowers. This matrimonial record was made nine years later than Sibel Cobb’s birth record and is considerably larger.
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