Verdaccio
MGF, Master Grumble Framer
So my brother and his wife inherited a framing shop 2 hours south of me. The nice lady left them the shop, but no operating capital to operate it while everything went through a year + probate.
Upshot is they decided to close the shop which was actually a good decision for them. Today I went down and inherited a bunch of supplies and some cool old things from a frame shop that is over 30 years old:
Books:
The Art of French Matting by Guy Downing - 1976
French Mats by Herb Carithers - no date but pictures of people look early 70s
Gainsborough, Complete Manual of Oil Painting Restoration by William Goodenough
A few cool matting technique books by Herb and Charles Carithers, Sean Hunt and Valerie McClure
Easy to Build Object Framing by Don Bowen - 1977
The Freshman Framer Revisited - Volumes 1-3 - 1976
Vises:
6 great United vises from back when they were made in the USA and the quality was so much better
Glass:
12 full and partial cases of all kinds of TV glass
About 25 convex rectangle and oval glasses from 5x7 to 16x20
Bags:
16 rolls of all sorts of bag sizes plus a rack for them
Prints:
30+ cool prints including some pretty old or rare ones like:
"It is Revealed" by Herman Raymond lithograph from 1981
and a few others that I have to look up
Moulding:
100+ feet of moulding & fillets
50 feet of stretcher bars
Stuff:
AF Gray Backing paper with a great sturdy old rack, 6 spools of wire, every possible screw, nail, clip, staple, or fitting you might ever need, a case of foamcore, rag 2ply sheets, ~100 sheets of 30x40 rag watercolor paper, tubes and tubes of watercolor and oil paints, a bunch of Amaco nail fillers, 2 gallons of glue....and the list goes on.
A good day.
Upshot is they decided to close the shop which was actually a good decision for them. Today I went down and inherited a bunch of supplies and some cool old things from a frame shop that is over 30 years old:
Books:
The Art of French Matting by Guy Downing - 1976
French Mats by Herb Carithers - no date but pictures of people look early 70s
Gainsborough, Complete Manual of Oil Painting Restoration by William Goodenough
A few cool matting technique books by Herb and Charles Carithers, Sean Hunt and Valerie McClure
Easy to Build Object Framing by Don Bowen - 1977
The Freshman Framer Revisited - Volumes 1-3 - 1976
Vises:
6 great United vises from back when they were made in the USA and the quality was so much better
Glass:
12 full and partial cases of all kinds of TV glass
About 25 convex rectangle and oval glasses from 5x7 to 16x20
Bags:
16 rolls of all sorts of bag sizes plus a rack for them
Prints:
30+ cool prints including some pretty old or rare ones like:
"It is Revealed" by Herman Raymond lithograph from 1981
and a few others that I have to look up
Moulding:
100+ feet of moulding & fillets
50 feet of stretcher bars
Stuff:
AF Gray Backing paper with a great sturdy old rack, 6 spools of wire, every possible screw, nail, clip, staple, or fitting you might ever need, a case of foamcore, rag 2ply sheets, ~100 sheets of 30x40 rag watercolor paper, tubes and tubes of watercolor and oil paints, a bunch of Amaco nail fillers, 2 gallons of glue....and the list goes on.
A good day.
Rick