George W. Gruber's Double-sided Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor with Birds and Flowers old hand-painted side Plus a nice old tin

Plus a nice old tin hook sewn to the corner

perhaps--en route to leading the free world

Believed to bring good luck

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

and the date of 1912 in another

George W. Gruber's Double-sided Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor with Birds and Flowers old hand-painted side Plus a nice old tinIt'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