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Small souvenir (or token of remembrance) or Bookplate (Bucherzeichen) (or Presentation piece) for Elisabeth Kisseberth

Small souvenir (or token of remembrance) or Bookplate (Bucherzeichen) (or Presentation piece) for Elisabeth Kisseberth

Scrivener: Constantin Jacob Deininger (American [Berks County, PA], 1791 - 1872)

Decorator: Constantin Jacob Deininger (American [Berks County, PA], 1791 - 1872)

Made for: Elisabeth Kisseberth (American [Berks County, PA], born 1848)

Date: 10/6/1863
Medium: watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions:
Framed: 15 3/16 x 12 1/4 x 7/8 in. (38.6 x 31.1 x 2.2 cm)
Sheet: 5 1/4 x 3 9/16 in. (13.3 x 9 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, Hiram and Mary Jane Lederach Hershey
Object number: 2014.3.1
Translation: "Elisabeth Kisseberth received this as a small souvenir by Constantin Jacob Deininger.  Teacher and organist at the Saint John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in the town of Reading in the state of Pennsylvania, 6 October 1863"
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