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<p>[QUOTE="Debora, post: 461959, member: 1476"]The Peter Becker who brought the Brethren Church from Germany to America was born in 1687 and died in 1758. This book was inscribed to a Peter Beckers (?) in 1906. It appears to have been printed in Zurich, Switzerland. There are thousands of these types of religious volumes floating around the U.S. due to the German "diaspora" at the turn of the last century. (For example, we have several that belonged to my great-grandmother.) Most, if not all, have no value beyond sentimental.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Debora, post: 461959, member: 1476"]The Peter Becker who brought the Brethren Church from Germany to America was born in 1687 and died in 1758. This book was inscribed to a Peter Beckers (?) in 1906. It appears to have been printed in Zurich, Switzerland. There are thousands of these types of religious volumes floating around the U.S. due to the German "diaspora" at the turn of the last century. (For example, we have several that belonged to my great-grandmother.) Most, if not all, have no value beyond sentimental. Debora[/QUOTE]
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