You are bidding on a nice one self-written poem withdrawings from 1886.

For the doctor's birthday dr Otto Beckmann in Trostianets (Empire of Russia; today Ukraine).

Title:"Dedicated to our dear Dr. Otto Beckmann in kind memory of his cradle festival by the loyal Boromlaners in 1886."

Ten four-line stanzas in legible Latin script.

Large format (28.3 x 41.7 cm); on very strong paper.

Drawings depicting Grim Reaper, mother with child, dragons, thistles...

Excerpts:

"When you were born Ottchen
Said the wise Aesculap:
'Put him under the Doctors,
That I take pleasure in him!'

You have become a clever doctor
As God decreed
Don't kill like others do
Sinful cattle and sons of men.

[...]

Tied up as a woman

Tight her husband's throat

You found it on the corpse

That nothing can help him anymore.

[...]

Long live, work miracles

Heal further with skill,

Make people even healthier

Trostjanetz for well-being and happiness."

Condition:Paper slightly browned and stained, with a few dents and small tears in the edges. Please also note the pictures!

Internal note: SBST-19-06-14

About Trostianets (source: wikipedia):

Trostianets (Ukrainian Тростянець; Russian Тростянец, Polish Trościaniec is a town under district administration in Sumy Oblast in northern Ukraine. The city is the center of the rayons of the same name and is located 57 km south of the capital of the region, Sumy, on the banks of the Boromlya River, a tributary of the Vorskla.

The city with 21,000 inhabitants (2017)[1] has numerous architectural monuments, including a neo-Gothic circular courtyard from 1749, the late Baroque Church of the Annunciation from 1750, a Galitzine castle from the 18th Century and the "Nymph Grotto", which was inaugurated in 1809 to the centenary of the Battle of Poltava.

story:Trostianets was founded in the 1650s[2], in 1877 the settlement becameСмородине /Smorodyne connected to the east around the railway station, since 1940 Trostianets has had the status of a city.

Ssons and daughters of the city

The Ukrainian writer and publicist Mykola Khvylovyj was born in the city in 1893.