Wonderful Early Grain Painted Pennsylvania Folk Art Frame, Original Glass and Wood Backing man with top hat with a little edge wear

with a little edge wear at lower right

with one dated by hand 1930--then January

original creamy white paint

and the years 1849 and 1850 appear

Wonderful Early Grain Painted Pennsylvania Folk Art Frame, Original Glass and Wood Backing man with top hat with a little edge wearI pretty much never come across such a wonderful, early frame as this, and as I don't currently have something quite worthy of it in hand, I'm offering it up to be used for the precisely perfect thing which I'd say would be a Pennsylvania fraktur watercolor! I know from the seller it came from Berks County, PA, and based on a fair bit of comparison with early grain painted early PA frames out there, I believe it dates to the 1830s 40s. Beautifully