Frameabilia Blog

When I started collecting 40 to 45 years ago, antique and collecting specialized auctions (Coins, Autographs, etc.) were not a prevalent as they ar...

Did you know that each of the colonies issued and printed their own paper money over 200 years ago? That's right!  Before our country declared its...

When I was collecting coins, it was exciting imaging who touched or held that coin from the late 1700s.  One's mind would wonder. In historical do...

As a collector and vest pocket dealer of over 35 years, it amazes me that people buy historical and presidential autographs without doing their du...

When I first started framing historical documents, dealers came to me asking to frame antique stocks and bonds for their clients.  These certifica...

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 autographs to collect in the presidential and historical manuscript world is one that has both signatures on the same do...

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

  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Although not a historical document, your diploma is still a valuable document that was expensive to obtain.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...