George W. Gruber's Double-sided Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor with Birds and Flowers old hand-painted side and the date of 1912

and the date of 1912 in another

and matching the black of the rest of the hide

on and on and on and on

which has accrued the  warmest and richest dry patina over the past 150+ years

Of course Barnum's beauties were complete inventions

George W. Gruber's Double-sided Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor with Birds and Flowers old hand-painted side and the date of 1912It's quite a lucky week when I've found two fraktur watercolors and this one double sided to boot! And I think both sides are equally good, both with birds and flowers happily floating between two panes of glass in the frame, so that one can enjoy them both. With the reverse side signed proudly by a George W. Gruber (I believe it is Gruber) I have found numerous Gruber's from Pennsylvania, where this was surely done, including a George W. who died in