Monthly Archives: April 2016

Framing Jerseys and What Goes Into the Process

Jersey framing doesn’t have to be difficult. I know a lot of people try these things at home, and more power to those brave souls, but if you want to have a keepsake for life, I would highly suggest going to a professional—someone who has been framing jerseys for real, live customers with real, live budgets […]

Simple Eccentricity: Joseph Cornell

I was doing what I do on Pinterest the other day – pinning shadowboxes so that our customers and viewers in general can get some inspiration for themselves – when I came across a peculiar box. Immediately, I was intrigued by the artist: Joseph Cornell. His works of art were gloriously simplistic, a bit garish. They […]

Framing the Human Experience: Part Two

In the twelfth and thirteenth century, framing evolved from a method used simply to divine scenes by the Egyptians and Greeks into the artists carving out a hollow in the actual slab of wood, leaving a raised edge, or frame, behind. Then, the artists painted whatever image they chose on the flat portion of the […]

Framing the Human Experience

I’m not going to lie to you. When I decided to write a blog today about frames, I was skeptical about what I would find. How interesting can the history of framing really be? How did we, as a civilization, start framing the human experience? Well, apparently, framing is another world altogether and classically an […]

Getting Into the Game with DNA

Get this, guys… Memorabilia authenticity has started to delve into the realm of DNA. First of all, you would think that historians would have this down. There are so many sports items. Of course, the business is lucrative. Moreover,I have found that it is difficult to pinpoint the start of the sports memorabilia craze. I did find something on […]

Nostalgia Defined

For thousands of years, human beings have attempted to recreate the world around them. Moreover, from cave drawings to Matisse Impressionist paintings, to photos and video, we have stridently tried to recreate our surroundings and what’s in them– it’s what I like to call nostalgia defined. First of all, what is it about our innate […]