Jessie Dambach has previously posted on one of the Ancertry.com/RootsWeb forums about a sample of Pennsylvania German Fraktur by Adam Dambach from Lancaster County, PA in 1779 that is owned by the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Adam Dambach is an early member of the Tombaugh family, still using the more Dutch/German, un-Anglicized variant of what later became the surname Tombaugh.
I’ve been in contact with someone from the museum, who let me know that the September, 2005 issue of “The Magazine Antiques” has an article on the materials used in making fraktur. The article includes a color photograph of Adam Dambach’s piece.
I have attached a PDF document from Winterthur with more details, including the original German text and an English translation if anyone is interested…
Jessie Dambach has previously posted on one of the Ancertry.com/RootsWeb forums about a sample of Pennsylvania German Fraktur by Adam Dambach from Lancaster County, PA in 1779 that is owned by the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Adam Dambach is an early member of the Tombaugh family, still using the more Dutch/German, un-Anglicized variant of what later became the surname Tombaugh.
I’ve been in contact with someone from the museum, who let me know that the September, 2005 issue of “The Magazine Antiques” has an article on the materials used in making fraktur. The article includes a color photograph of Adam Dambach’s piece.
I have attached a PDF document from Winterthur with more details, including the original German text and an English translation if anyone is interested…