Frameabilia Blog

The John Smith map of Virginia, from the early Seventeenth century, is one of the most desirable and sought after maps for the advanced collector. ...

One of the most desirable autograph combinations to collect in the presidential and historical manuscript world is one that has both signatures on ...

As a seller on ebay, it amazes me that people will shell out thousands of dollars without checking to see if the autograph is genuine. Just today, ...

  As an avid map collector, some of the early colonial maps are, perhaps, some of the most striking cartographic masterpieces ever printed.  How th...

Although not a historical document, your diploma is still a valuable document that was expensive to obtain.  And, very time consuming with hard wor...

As I write this blog, several things occur to me during this uncertain time of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic gripping our nation. First, peop...

Of the over 30 years I have been in framing, it amazes me how framers treat, mount and frame art and artifacts for people who patronize them.  On a...

John Speed's map of Virginia and Maryland is one of the most sought after maps by either collectors of maps of either (or both) states due to the f...

Have you visited someone' home or office and noticed they had interesting framed historical items on their walls?  And there was no mention of the ...

There's Gold in them thar Hills was a famous "misquote" attributed to a character in Mark Twain's 1892 American Claimant.  Contrary to what one wou...

Unlike modern printed maps of today, antique maps from the 15th to early/middle 19th centuries were very beautiful with attractive and meaningful d...

The thrill of collecting ancient coins is when you imagine what kings, emperors and other famous ancient people touched and spent these coins. Noth...