George W. Gruber's Double-sided Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor with Birds and Flowers old hand-painted side Believed to bring good luck

Believed to bring good luck

Of course Barnum's beauties were complete inventions

increasingly so the further the distance—rather like life

and matching the black of the rest of the hide

Plus a nice old tin hook sewn to the corner

George W. Gruber's Double-sided Antique Pennsylvania Fraktur Type Watercolor with Birds and Flowers old hand-painted side Believed to bring good luckIt'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