12/23/14
Artistic Framing
Artistic Framing may not be the name of this company, so this post maybe amended if a full example is found.
12/22/14
12/19/14
12/12/14
Albert James Rowley - The Rowley Gallery
The example below was posted on 15th March 2014:
There is detailed information on The Rowley Gallery on the National Portrait Gallery website: Directory of British Picture Framemakers
11/15/14
11/4/14
10/28/14
10/10/14
George Davidson
A very nice Art Nouveau label design:
A partial (also George Davidson) exhibition/artist info label with Art Nouveau border below, which was covering up the label above.
The stamp below originally posted on 20th December 2012:
10/9/14
10/2/14
9/6/14
H. & R. Dahne
Some information from a reader added today, to this post from earlier in the year.
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As a teenager and young adult in the 1960’s I knew Heinz Dahne, who ran a framing shop in Queens Road, Clifton, Bristol. This was just around the corner from the pub my father ran, and Heinz would often drop in for a pint at lunch or in the early evening. I don’t know who R Dahne might have been.
He was a quiet man and as a young person I had no particular affinity with him, except one time he told me how he came to live in England. He had a pronounced German accent and I had assumed he was a recent immigrant. It turned out he was a prisoner of war in various parts of the UK during WW II, mainly in Yorkshire and other northerly places. As a prisoner he was set to helping on farms and generally got on well with the local people despite being one of the enemy. He said he was treated well which surprised him. When the war ended he was expected to return to Germany but was given the option to immigrate if he contributed to the cleanup of the wartime infrastructure which was necessary. He spent the next 5 or 6 years demolishing concrete fortifications, unstringing barbed wire and clearing minefields. He and his crew, mostly Poles, lived in old military camps under some form of supervision. After his service he was given permission to go his own way. I don’t know if this included a passport.
Some time around 1970 when I was home from university I asked where Heinz was and I think I was told he had died. His shop certainly disappeared.
I have often wondered what the back story was, that a person in such a situation would perform arduous and sometimes dangerous work rather than return home to his own country. Maybe he was ashamed of the atrocities which had been committed, maybe he was struck by unexpected kindness he had met while he was a prisoner. Maybe he had even met someone whom he wanted to stay with.
Steve Williams, Möriken, Switzerland.
8/31/14
C. Lamm
Lots of information on the Lamm family of picture framers on the National Portrait Gallery website directory of British framemakers
8/30/14
Mr G.D. Lamb & Son.
A complete G.D. Lamb label which was kindly sent in by email:
Information below was originally posted on 9th December 2012
A partial label, which is a shame as it looks as if it could have been a nice one. I think this must be G.D. Lamb & Son, who appear on this website: The Story of Walsall which has a directory of some businesses that traded in Walsall in 1914, it lists Lamb as the business trading from this address and states the business was established 20 years earlier.
G.D. Lamb shop front. 9 Bradford Street, Walsall.
Image courtesy of The Wolverhampton History and Heritage Website.
Image courtesy of The Wolverhampton History and Heritage Website.
Mr G.D. Lamb
Image courtesy of The Wolverhampton History and Heritage Website.
8/2/14
8/1/14
Baird-Carter's Gallery
This half-label could be for Baird-Carter's Gallery, who traded from this address from 1903 to 1914 or later.
7/31/14
7/30/14
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