Category Archives: History

What You Can Expect at the Auctions this Year.

After having such a successful season last year, we knew that we had to create something unique for our customers to bid on out our NFL partners home games. Our top designs got together to brainstorm what sort of custom frame could that build that would really stand out at our auctions and could make a memorabilia collectors […]

Time to Preserve Your LeBron James Memorabilia

With LeBron James now heading to his 7th consecutive NBA Finals, he now passes Michael Jordan as the All-time scoring leading in the playoffs. Which means sports fans with LeBron memorabilia should consider keeping their treasures safe by having them custom framed. Do you have an autographed LeBron James jersey that you don’t want getting […]

Why Shop With Us?

CSD Framing has been in the custom framing business for over 20 years. We like to think of ourselves as high end, quality frame makers. When you when custom frame your own memorabilia or purchase memorabilia from our shop, we want our customers to know that they are getting something one of a kind. Our […]

Super Bowl Time

It’s Super Bowl time everyone, and that means Watch Parties are going to happen. It’s the Patriots VS the Falcons in what should turn out to be a high scoring affair. This game will make history. One quarterback has the potential to win more Super Bowls than any other before him (Tom Brady) or a […]

Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali Memorabilia

Muhammad Ali memorabilia has always been, and will continue to be, top sports memorabilia and a favorite of sports collectors. This is going to be a photo blog today, featuring Muhammad Ali’s gloves, robes, trunks… all the good stuff! Rest in peace. Favorite Muhammad Ali Quotes (USA Today): “A man who views the world the […]

Famous Symbols and Their Meanings

If I’m ever not sure about what to write about, it doesn’t take long for me to peruse the CSD photo gallery for inspiration. Today was no different. As a writer, I was taught that symbols stand for something. Interestingly, throughout history, symbols can shift in their meaning. Moreover, they can completely change due to […]

Top Ten Oldest Sports

Mike Modano Hockey Stick Display Case CSD Carrollton, Texas
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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 […]

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 […]