Merkel 1886 Wedding certificate - gold ink highlights plus 4 pages in gold ink.

Description

1886 Wedding certificate - gold ink highlights Wilson Merkel plus 4 pages in gold ink.
Pages :  Marriages, Births, Deaths, Memoranda.
These pages were torn from the family Bible of the 1880s.
The wedding certificate is one-sided printed in black, red, green and gold ink that glows ( not shown well on the scans).  The same glowing gold ink is used on the titles and borders of the pages: Marriages, Births, Deaths, Memoranda.
The certificate is in excellent condition and on a more glossy (whiter) paper than the other pages.
The other four pages are blank except for the Birth page which gives baptism history of Wilson.  The Deaths and Memoranda pages have two staining issues shown on scans.
TEXT:
THIS IS TO CERTIFY
That Wilson C Merkel of Maxatawny Township Berks Co. Pa. and Fannie E. Heffner of Maxatawny Township Berks Co. Pa.
were by me united together in
HOLY MATRIMONY
on the Twenty Sixth day of September in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Six.
In the Presence of B. E. Kramlich
TEXT under Birth
Wilson Charles son of Jacob Merkel and his wife Amelia daughter of Jacob Schwartz was born in Richmond Township Berks Co. Pa. on the 23rd day of March 1858 Baptized on the 5 of June by Rev. Isaac Roeller.
Sponsor his beloved brother.
Wilson and Fannie had no children and lived in the Kutztown area of Pennsylvania
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