Masking Tape Mayhem

[Jonny2morsos]

Had an old picture by a local artist (now deceased) in for reframing and just opened it up to reveal this!

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To save you counting there are 24 separate pieces of masking tape.

[prospero]

Seen worse. Not by much though.

[Dave]

Nice, came across a foot long strip of sticking plaster this morning.

Dave

[strokebloke]

Didn't want it to fall out then?

[Graysalchemy]

I like the sums on the mountboard

[Jonny2morsos]

Didn't want it to fall out then?

It pretty much fell out because being masking tape the adhesive had gone dry.

[JohnMcafee]

I love to see a job come in like this, with the image well secured to the back of the mount.

Saves us the hassle of having to do it.

[Abacus]

I had one stuck to the mount with those white self adhesive labels intended for printing addresses on

[prospero]

I've had Elastoplasts. Not the thin ones, the gooey fabric ones. Also postage stamps, although they were probably a considerable improvement over masking tape.

I'm wondering why 24 pieces? Although I can imagine the guy thinking "It's still wavy. Needs another bit just........there".

[Not your average framer]

I've not had the elastoplasts yet, but I've had a fair few come in with the strips from around a sheet of postage stamps and even more with gaffer, or duct tape.

Even when you think that you've seen it all, there's always worst to come some time or another!

[Jonny2morsos]

I'm wondering why 24 pieces? Although I can imagine the guy thinking "It's still wavy. Needs another bit just........there".

If you look at the image you will notice there are strips of mountboard around the edge of the watercolour paper with plenty of bits of masking tape. Err Why?

[Roboframer]

Because they'd fall off otherwise

[Jonny2morsos]

I meant why the strips of mount board! Perhaps the artist thought it would hide the paper being wavy.

[Roboframer]

I know what you meant, I was being a smartarse.

[strokebloke]

If the picture was in good condition John, then what you're looking at is 'conservation framing'.
Maybe the picture wasn't wavy when he put it in.
He could have supa-glued it

[prospero]

I've had quite few people with ripply paintings/prints who have added more and more tape to try and cure the waves. Their reasoning being that it will somehow pull the paper into line. Sounds sensible enough.

Little do they know.....

[Not your average framer]

He could have supa-glued it

All sorts of people read this forum. Be careful, you might have started something!

[strokebloke]

Sorry - I didn't consider the 'peripheral' audience

"Sounds sensible enough.

Little do they know..... "

One thing I have learned from life, is that no matter how stupid it really is, if you know sufficiently little about a subject, anything may appear to be perfectly sensible and plausible

[misterdiy]

We had a good one a few weeks ago now. The original watercolour was stuck on the cream core mount with nice brown parcel tape. The "original" frame was actually a slip from something else that had at some time in the past been chopped down and nailed together .... to fit something else. The frame was actually too big for the print/mount combination. The work was taped into the frame with duct tape (conservation quality ) with not a single pin. The screw eyes which were on the "frame" had the remnants of a piece of string. apparantly the string snapped and the whole lot dropped on the floor and smashed the glass.

Having tried to persuade the customer that a new frame was required, plus new mount and proper finishing off, I was told in no uncertain terms that the original painting was extremely valuable and that the "frame" gave it provenance. The "provenance" was in fact a note taped to the cardboard back from some Lord from Scotland giving the picture to one of the estate serfs. Had I got sufficient insuranece to cover this masterpiece? I said "probably"

On looking a little further at the artist, it appears that he was very prolific and painted loads like the one brought in, but it was of Bodmin Moor and not the mountains in Scotland. Never a dull moment