This is the chromolithograph heading from The Philadelphia Print Shop Blog. Beautiful print! |
Saturday, January 24, 2015
The "A Chromolithographic Mistake" Story
It was an ordinary day. Just removed a two page informational summary from the rear of a framed print that was brought into the gallery where I work and began to disassemble it. The owner of the print wanted us to remove the print from the frame that it was currently in and place it in another antique frame that he had purchased. Problem was that the antique frame wasn't the same size and required that I cut most of the mat from either side to make it fit. Only when I took it out of it's original frame and read the two sheets did I realize what I was viewing.
It was an adver- tisement for the Baldwin Locomotive Company in the mid-1850's. The price of the print was $7,500 according to the paperwork I am reading. Careful LDub! Don't make a wrong move and damage anything!! Well, I trimmed the sides of the mat that covered the print without damaging anything, but the result that remained looked poor. I know that the customer is always correct in almost all businesses, but this really looks bad. To place a print like this in a frame because you like the frame is not doing justice to the print. But, it's not my print, taste or money involved, so I carefully put the job in the antique frame and finished it. I have included a photo of what it now looks like for you to see how beautiful the chromolithograph advertisement is, but you too may realize the mistake that was made by re-framing it. It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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