1870 Newspaper

[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.

[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?

[prospero]

Nice bit of woodwork.

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

[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.

[kartoffelngeist]

Sorry to bump an old thread - piqued my curiosity...

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

[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.

[JFeig]

Did you recharge the silica gel?

[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.

[MITREMAN]

For your information.
http://www.apsnyc.com/uploads/Demystify ... %20Gel.pdf

Kind regards
Mitreman

[StevenG]

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%

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

[David McCormack]

...then it looks like Mark took over

Spilt me tea reading that, thank you