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Fig. 10. A 'Hatip-Ebru' paper made in Istanbul by Necmeddin Okyay (Hirsch J3S26a(s))
Leonhard Kauffmann who replaced Schwibecher's signature with his own: AUGSPURG BEY MARX LEONHARD KAUFMAN N34, on a sheet which is now in the Prentenkabinet of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.51 An impression of this same plate was copied by Johann Michael Reimund, the first Nuremberg paper-embosser, who worked from c. 1727 and who died in 1768, showing all hunters as left-handed. Schwibecher's stepson Johann Michael Munck the younger comes from another well-known Augsburg paper-decorators' family. His father was a paper-marbler and his son, Johann Carl, made embossed papers in Augsburg from c. 1749 to 1794. Johann Michael the younger worked as an embossed-pap er-maker from c. 1739; he died before January 1762 when his widow married Johann Georg Eder who may have taken over part of Munck's business. A fine collection of Saints is embossed in gold on mauve paper showing in the top row from left to right: 'Christus ies. Mater dei. S.Petrus. S.Paulus.' and in the bottom row: 'S.Moyses'. (fig. I I) 'S.David. S.Ioannes. S.Elias.' It is signed I.M.M.A.V. Nr 4° (Hirsch J251). Another sheet signed (though on the Hirsch paper almost invisibly) by Johann Michael Munck, style no. 6652 (Hirsch J 316), shows two rows of four rectangles embossed in gold on pink, each containing the alphabet in Gothic and Roman letters as well as the Arabic numerals I to 10. The capital A encloses the Christ Child, an orb in his left hand, his right hand raised in blessing, standing with his legs slightly spread. This sheet may have been copied or imitated by various Augsburg, Nuremberg, and Fiirth paperembossers, one of whom was Munck's son Johann Carl whose signature appears on a sheet illustrated by R. Loring.53 The Hirsch collection contains several of these alphabets, the poor child's horn book. Two sheets, one in gold on pink, the other in gold on purple, were made in the 1820S or 30S by Johann Lechner ofFiirth (HirschJ317/18). On this paper only the capital A's of the fourth and eighth rectangle contains the Christ Child, here sitting down. The other A's have a fir-cone-type ornament (rectangles I and 5), the Aesculapian symbol (rectangles 2 and 6), or a mandorla (rectangles 3 and 7). The design of a sheet embossed in gold on dark pink with two rows of four alphabets, where all A's enclose the Christ Child half leaning to the right with his legs together (Hirsch J319, fig. 12), is identical with that on yellow paper in the Staatliche Kunstbibliothek in Berlin which bears a trace of the signature of the Nuremberg merchant and decorated-paper-maker Johann Georg Eckart.54 A fourth variant, embossed in gold on dark pink, was also made at Nuremberg by Paul Reimund, who signed it as his style no. 60, and shows a reclining Christ Child in every capital A (Hirsch J320). Paul Reimund, son of Andreas Reimund, was baptized on 7 January 1764. He married first (1783) Helena Sabina Hoffmann, secondly (1789) Petronella Mendelein, and thirdly (1802) Anna Regina Vogelsang. He lived in the Weissgerbergasse where he employed, c. 1800, six workmen. In 1803 he is mentioned as master in the Nuremberg book of pattern makers ('Formschneiderbuch'), he died in 1815, and his widow was still in business in 1820. A fair number of sheets signed by him are in the Hirsch collection, such as a purple-grey paper embossed in gold with a design of flowers and fruit including simple four- and five-petalled flowers, tulips, daffodils, and carnations, as well as berries, pomegranates, cherries, and grapes. It was his 30
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