Personalized


This commercially printed document is decorated with angels and birds around an enclosed area. In this area is space for personalization above a poem in German.
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Beginning in the early 19th century, some fraktur were commercially printed, then personalized for the customer by professional scriveners. German was still the preferred language of these forms, but later English versions began to appear as well. Go to (link to interactive) to print your own copy of this fraktur.