Bernard Badura

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.
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Frederick Harer, 1879-1949

Frederick Harer signature on a frame on a Daniel Garber painting.

Frederick Harer signed his frames as works of art.

 The Lumberville Bridge
Danial Garber, Frederick Harer, frame.
South Bend Museum of Art

Harer was one of the founders of the Bucks County school of frame making. Here, he uses a form of sgraffito to punch and incise decorative patterns into the surface. He was also a painter and sculptor.