Baer Charlton
SPFG, Supreme Picture Framing God
This is an 85 year old point shoe. This customers grandmother had taught herself how to dance ballet well enough to join a dance troupe. These are the only surviving points.
April 20th [two weeks ago] a framer in SoCal siliconed these shoes to the suede board using about half a tube of silicone. The ConClear glass is already fogged/etched from the off-gassing.
The only original photo of her in dance costume, up on point is already yellowing. Our customer's mother had it framed and sent it to her here in Portland. She knew that the photo had been in much better condition and not as yellow.
She is currently getting the photo restored as well as a color copy made of the original booklet on How-to learn ballet at home. [which was mounted on a scrap of red matboard] I won't put those valuable documents back in the package.
The customer was standing right there when I opened the package and the resulting waft of silicon stench stung our eyes.
Why do they do this cr*p? A few little dabs would have been plenty... and let it air out for a week.


April 20th [two weeks ago] a framer in SoCal siliconed these shoes to the suede board using about half a tube of silicone. The ConClear glass is already fogged/etched from the off-gassing.
The only original photo of her in dance costume, up on point is already yellowing. Our customer's mother had it framed and sent it to her here in Portland. She knew that the photo had been in much better condition and not as yellow.
She is currently getting the photo restored as well as a color copy made of the original booklet on How-to learn ballet at home. [which was mounted on a scrap of red matboard] I won't put those valuable documents back in the package.
The customer was standing right there when I opened the package and the resulting waft of silicon stench stung our eyes.

Why do they do this cr*p? A few little dabs would have been plenty... and let it air out for a week.