It's not everyday you get to frame a piece of history. We just finished framing one of the earliest "Wanted" posters to bear a fugitive's photograph. Five days after President Abraham Lincoln was fatally shot, authorities distributed posters promising a large reward, $100,000 for the capture of his assassin: John Wilkes Booth and conspirators. The photograph of Booth had been produced as a publicity shot for the actor.
This had to be framed a unique way. The customer asked if we would make a frame from authentic barn wood. A barn in Kent, CT had been torn down and he had purchased a few planks of wood. We were able to take the planks, cut them in half and mill them to create the frame. The peeling red barn paint adds an authentic feel to the art. What better way to showcase this piece; that would have originally been nailed to the side of barns in 1865.
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