Glorious 1850 Pennsylvania German Fraktur Watercolor Bookplate with Pointing Hand, Berks County print on board and the moon and stars

and the moon and stars are gold paper

all done by hand

3 1/8" d corner to corner

with the rosebuds feeling like promises of comfort indeed

which feels like a cousin of a Schoenhut circus drum

Glorious 1850 Pennsylvania German Fraktur Watercolor Bookplate with Pointing Hand, Berks County print on board and the moon and starsPhotos don't quite do justice to the richness and radiance of the color on this 1850 Pennsylvania German fraktur bookplate I find it just glorious. The lower half reads "In Ober [Upper] Bern Township, Berks County, 1850." The upper portion is the name of its owner I read it as Eleisa Mager, but I think I may have a letter or two wrong as I've not found a match; perhaps Mayer? (Surely someone better at reading fraktur lettering than I am can figure it