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1870 Newspaper

Posted: Wed 28 Sep, 2016 3:33 pm
by JohnMcafee
This beast came in for re-framing today., it must weigh over 100 pounds.

The newspaper sits a couple of inches from the glass and I suspect that the remaining box depth is taken up by a cavity containing silica gel or similar, though I haven't opened it yet.

With the hygrometer in the corner it looks like the framer was focussed on humidity.

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Wed 28 Sep, 2016 9:27 pm
by Roboframer
I've never seen anything like that before! Maybe the cavity contains the rest of the newspaper or maybe that piece of something sticking out on the right is mountboard inserted between the front page and the rest of the paper. I wonder how it's mounted.

How are you going to re-frame/mount it?

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Wed 28 Sep, 2016 11:05 pm
by prospero
Nice bit of woodwork.

I wonder why someone would go to all that trouble and not get the page central in the frame.

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Wed 12 Oct, 2016 10:13 pm
by Not your average framer
There's a serious amount of labour gone into that frame. Looking at the botton picture, you can see that the newspaper is a long way forward of the rear of the frame. I'm just wondering if this frame was made to hide something else in the back. You say that it must weigh over 100 pounds, that's very heavy for what we can see in the photo. It would be interesting to know why it's so heavy.

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Thu 05 Apr, 2018 2:25 pm
by kartoffelngeist
Sorry to bump an old thread - piqued my curiosity...

Did you ever find out more about what was in the frame?

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Fri 06 Apr, 2018 2:47 pm
by JohnMcafee
Turned out to be very solidly constructed. The front was cut from a single piece of timber (teak?) into which was set a piece of 6mm glass which might have been toughened, I didn't try to break it though.

The box was made from 1in marine ply. The area behind the false bottom was filled with silica gel beads. I think it was more the work of a joiner rather than a framer, but extremely well made. Brass screws were used throughout, each screwed into a little countersunk brass cup.

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Fri 06 Apr, 2018 3:24 pm
by JFeig
Did you recharge the silica gel?

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Sun 08 Apr, 2018 2:08 pm
by JohnMcafee
This was a re-framing job.

Didn't use silica gel, I can't think of any circumstances, in the normal course of events, where placing this stuff within a frame would be appropriate.

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Mon 14 May, 2018 8:39 pm
by MITREMAN
For your information.
http://www.apsnyc.com/uploads/Demystify ... %20Gel.pdf

Kind regards
Mitreman

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Tue 15 May, 2018 9:33 am
by StevenG
MITREMAN wrote:For your information.
http://www.apsnyc.com/uploads/Demystify ... %20Gel.pdf

Kind regards
Mitreman
Cheers John

I see that the "Hysteresis Corrected EMC/RH Isotherm Between 40-55% RH", I'm glad I know that now - the amount of mistakes I've made thinking it was 39-54% :Slap: :? :lol:

The article started off well & I thought - this is good, it appears to be an interesting read then it looks like Mark took over :giggle:

Re: 1870 Newspaper

Posted: Tue 15 May, 2018 11:34 am
by David McCormack
featurepiece wrote:...then it looks like Mark took over :giggle:
Spilt me tea reading that, thank you :lol: