Certificate of apprenticeship for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg.: Membership of the guild of merchants of exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs.

German calligraphic manuscript on vellum, richly decorated with colourful ornaments in upper, right and left margins. Berlin 1761. German manuscript on vellum, dated Berlin, 29 November 1761. With beautifully coloured ornamental decorations in right and left margins; with a crown above "FR" (for Fridericus Rex) at the centre of top margin framed by further hand coloured ornamental decorations. Signed by the master Christian Friederich Herr as well as by the guild elders Samuel Rhau and Johann Jacob Gillet. Oblong folio (353 x 610 mm). Traces of folds. An incision at the lower margin indicates that a seal was once present.


The document was issued for August Friederich Nicolai from Brandenburg, who had been apprenticed to Christian Friederich Herr for six years since Christmas 1755 and now becoming a member of the Berlin guild of merchants for exotic spices and other exotic foodstuffs. From the early days of delicatessen shops in Berlin!