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.

9/29/13

Juhl Importing Company, Juhl Inc.

Closson Galleries

The Dayton Company

9/14/13

Chas. G. Smithers

Wm. Whiteley, Ltd.

J.Brown & Son.

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

9/4/13

Maison Boutigny

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. ...

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...

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.swaingalleri...

8/8/13

Bernard Badura

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

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