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A customer of ours, who has small sample pieces to keep at home, as asked about moulding number 0144-04. He says it is a sample from us, but we don't stock a moulding with that code and are a bit stumped on which supplier it might be from.

Does anyone recognise the code and if so, could you point us in the right direction please?

Many thanks

Tudor Rose

Hmmmm.... Bit stumped there. None of the main suppliers that I know of use a numbering convention with a - in.

Any chance of a pic?

A photo or the sample back is what we have asked for because the customer lives at some distance away. They have tried to describe it over the phone but we are still stumped.

Looks like a Ashworth and Thompson moulding number to me.

Have looked in current brochure but nothing in there with that number, perhaps it's been discontinued.

Sorry I can't be of anymore help.

Mark

Nearest that comes to my mind is Lion Minerva M144-74.

Any possiblility it couls be a batch number on the back of the moulding?

It could easily be an old Renaissance, Euro mouldings, or Ashworth and Thomson number. I'll have a dig through my old catalogues when I nip next door for an afternoon cuppa.

Sorry, I can't match this number with any suppliers catalogues which I have. This may be a manufacturers number which your customer has seen on the back of a frame, but the UK supplier lists the moulding under another number.

It may have come from a wholesaler who has renamed it to their own system. Could be a batch number.

I gave up trying to remember moulding refs ages ago.

2" dusty browny scoopy with a goldy edge is easier to remember.

i do the same prospero

I hopeless with the numbers

i end up ringing and asking for the small black one with the matt finish or something

Might be worth trying Peers Framing Supplies on 0121 551 1150 (I assume that they still exist). I've got an old (2002) catalogue of theirs and they have some similar looking numbers with dashes before the last one or two digits.

About the only catalogue I haven't checked for this number in Byron. I can't find it at the moment, but they are no longer trading anyway.

Another thought! Some framers reverse the sequence of moulding numbers, or the groups of numbers, just to confuse their competitors.

prospero wrote:I gave up trying to remember moulding refs ages ago.

I'm the opposite I will go to my grave saying 408167000 or 156000348.

Seriously I think you will have to wait until you see the moulding then you will go.....

"oh 14404AS why didn't you say that"

Mystery solved, the sample turned up today - the number clearly written when the sample was sent from the supplier was 0144-04, but in the old catalogue it is 0144/04! So it is a D&J Simons moulding, unfortunately discontinued and clearly not one we have ever stocked so the customer is going to have to choose again.

Happy days and thanks to everyone for all your suggestions.

Tudor Rose