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Posted By: hankron

In fact, what I would do if I had some skinned Old Judges, I would mount them larger backings, beautifully matte and frame them and hang them from the wall. And if someone asked me if the mountings were original, I would say, "No, they're better than original."

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A slightly off topic but true anecdote ... There a man who was the world's foremost framemaker. If the Louvre or Museum of Modern Art needed a frame for their showing of a million dollar Leonardo Da Vinci painting, they would go to this guy. All he did was make frames, even if people didn't need them. One day he looked around his shop and saw he had all these frames sitting around that no one had ordered and with nothing in them. He figured he would take up painting as a hobby just so he could stick something in the empty frames. He had more talent than he had anticipated and his paintings are now themselves in museums.