Bohemian Krumau – Hohenfurt – Rosenberg – Report for Vinzenz Pokorny from Rosenberg for four years attendance of the parish school Hohenfurt. Printed form filled in in German writing. Executed March 20, 1825. Sm. fol. 1 page. With seal and signatures of Valentin Schozzer, vicar, and Franz Karl Gruber, schoolmaster.

Typograph. watermark FDW/LDM (?). – Smoothed out horizontal and 2 vertical folds. – The very fine and clear seal with inscription “Vicarage Hohenfurt 1803”. – At the back note of two lines by old hand. – Religion, reading, and writing fine, correct writing and arithmetic just average though:

“ Presenter of this, Vinzenz Pokorny, 15 years old … born in the dominion Rosenberg, has attended the school here for four years, and proven in the test undertaken with him that he has learned the prescribed subjects. In respect of the manners he deserves to be set into the first grade … ”.

Offer no. 15,042 / EUR  128. (c. US$ 179.) + shipping

„ Best her Niemeyer, De prenten zijn vanmiddag in goede staat gearriveerd. Alleen al het uitpakken is een genot! Ze zien er prachtig uit (vooral The Idel ’prentice is een juweel) … Wat dat betreft, zijn eigenlijk alle prenten die u mij hebt toegezonde, van uitstekende kwaliteit … “

(de heer P. E., 1. Februar 2008)