Picture Frame Labels

Labels and signatures from old and antique picture frames. Other aspects of framing, interiors, exteriors, signage, etc. Click on an image to enlarge. Email me, sidebar, Bron, or my colleague, fellow framewright, Richard Christie. If I add to a post, I'll bump it to the top. "Post Labels", to the right include specialties and locations if you are searching for something specific.

8/29/13

M & B Bartington

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Information on this family of 19th Century framemakers is on the National Portrait Gallery website.
8/27/13

R.H. Macy & Co.

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This label came in the email, credit to anonymous. I find it interesting that they offered regilding Below previously published...
8/16/13

Foord and Dickinson

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There is more information at The National Portrait Gallery, Directory of British Framemakers. You'll need to scroll down.

Swain's Art Store

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Swains Art Store. No picture of the recto, face, of the frame. The business, established 1868, is still active: http://www.swaingalleri...
8/8/13

Bernard Badura

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Ben Badura "label", from the book "Carved Incised Glided and Burnished, The Bucks County Framing Tradition" Erika Jaeg...
8/6/13

H.S. Swasey

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And another posted by Richard Christie: Henry Street Swasey, picture framer by trade, but also an artist. It appears that he al...
8/5/13

Coquelin-Hérault

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© Mathilde-Jeannine Durand -  Antique Frames/Cadres Anciens.

E. Fernandez

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© Mathilde-Jeannine Durand -  Antique Frames/Cadres Anciens.

James S. Earle's

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©  Gold Leaf Studios

Robin Hood

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©   Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

Walfred Thulin

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

Carrig-Rohane

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" Frame shop; Boston, Mass. Formed without a formal name ca. 1903 by painters Charles Prendergast, Hermann Dudley Murphy, and ...
8/2/13

Newcomb-Macklin Co.

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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...
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