Item Name	Papercut or Scherenschnitt	Image1
Owner(s)	Schneider, Joseph
Category	Artifacts
Year	Early: 1805 - Late: 1805
Description	An unsigned papercut or Scherenschnitt from the Bible owned by Barbara and Joseph Schneider. It is a double-headed eagle with a heart and a base with room for text. Another signed version of this same design is known and documented.
Provenance	Said by the current owner to have been made by Barbara Schneider and came from Pennsylvania in the Bible.
Collection	Private Collection
Curatorial Comments	A very similar papercut made by Barbara Brubacher in the mid-19th century is pictured in Michael S. Bird's Ontario Fraktur, A Pennsylvania-German Folk Tradition in Early Canada (Toronto: M.F. Feheley Publishers, 1977), p. 102. This papercut features the motif of a two-headed bird and the acrostic preayer, "O Edles Herz Bedenk Dein End" (OEHBDDE) - "O Noble Heart, Consider Thy Destiny."

Fraktur design based on Family Register by Jacob Shoemacher in Joseph Schneider Bible, 1821.