Picture Frame Labels: August 2013

8/29/13

M & B Bartington

Information on this family of 19th Century framemakers is on the National Portrait Gallery website.

8/27/13

R.H. Macy & Co.

This label came in the email, credit to anonymous. I find it interesting that they offered regilding

Below previously published 9/8/12

The Macy's, parades and all that.

Collection:

Scott Klinkenborg
Superior Moulding Corp.
5000 West 35th St.
St. Louis Park, MN. 55416
1-800-922-7914

8/16/13

Foord and Dickinson

There is more information at The National Portrait Gallery, Directory of British Framemakers.

You'll need to scroll down.

Swain's Art Store

Swains Art Store. No picture of the recto, face, of the frame. The business, established 1868, is still active:

http://www.swaingalleries.com/history.html

This iteration of the Swain label courtesy of Eli Wilner & Co.

8/8/13

Ben Badura "label", from the book "Carved Incised Glided and Burnished, The Bucks County Framing Tradition" Erika Jaeger Smith. A catalog of an exhibition at the Jame A. Michener Art Museum.

Badura, 1896-1986, apprenticed with Frederick Harer, 1879-1948.

Another Badura signature, from The Eli Wilner Company:

Eli Wilner & Co.
http://www.eliwilner.com

8/6/13

H.S. Swasey

And another posted by Richard Christie:

Henry Street Swasey, picture framer by trade, but also an artist. It appears that he also sold art, and art materials.

8/5/13

Coquelin-Hérault

E. Fernandez

James S. Earle's

Robin Hood

Walfred Thulin

Thulin was associated with Carrig-Rohane; see previous post. I'm giving him a separate post.

Carrig-Rohane

"Frame shop; Boston, Mass. Formed without a formal name ca. 1903 by painters Charles Prendergast, Hermann Dudley Murphy, and the carver and gilder Walfred Thulin. Beginning in 1906, was known as the Frame Shop of Hermann Dudley Murphy, and incorporated June 13, 1911 as the Thulin-Murphy Co. On Feb. 5, 1914, the name was changed to the Carrig-Rohane Shop after the Irish village of Murphy's father. In 1915, Murphy ceded the management to Robert C. Vose. At its peak, the shop employed fifteen people and provided custom frames to museums, galleries, and collectors throughout America. The corporation dissolved on March 29, 1939, and the operation moved to the Vose Galleries' premises."

Carrig-Rohane Shop Records, 1903-1962. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

8/2/13

Newcomb-Macklin Co.

From Sue Davis, Master Framers Collection, a label from a firm whose work I've looked at, handled, worked on or borrowed from, but until now, never seen a label in the wild. I have even spent quite a few hours rummaging through the composition mold collection, Newcomb-Macklin, now owned by the Thanhardt-Burger Corporation.

Collection:

Roger Nielson and Sue Davis
Master Framers
262 4th Street E Suite 102
St. Paul, MN 55101
651-291-8820
http://www.masterframers.com/

And another, from Eli Wilner & Co.

Collection

Eli Wilner & Co.
http://www.eliwilner.com

8/1/13

Foster Brothers

The brass or bronze plate is one I have seen before, many years ago. Previously, the plate was, inlet, if memory serves.

Collection:

Joseph P. Rice
www.forthillstudios.com

Collection:

Scott Klinkenborg
Superior Moulding Corp.
5000 West 35th St.
St. Louis Park, MN. 55416
1-800-922-7914
http://www.supermoulding.com

And 2 more. This plate appears to be inlet.

Collection:

Eli Wilner & Co.
http://www.eliwilner.com