Picture Frame Labels

9/29/13

Juhl Importing Company, Juhl Inc.

9/14/13

J.Brown & Son.

This label was sent in by Jan Poul, a picture framer in London.

9/4/13

9/1/13

Arthur Vokins and J. & W. Vokins

Another example of a Vokins label, this one is slightly earlier than the Arthur Vokins label, but both are variations of the same company.

Below originally posted on 16th August 2012

Arthur Vokins (1839-1913), lots of information on earlier Vokins art and frame making businesses on the National Portrait Gallery resource.

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