OT: Opinion requested - to trim or not to trim?

[EvilKing00]

always a tuff cal with trimming.

A - you dont have a full newspaper
B - like u said there is no text on that page about the team
c - you need to keep the date
d - are you planning on selling it or keeping it?

If i was keeping it - Id keep as much as I can along with the date and the right side of the paper, and frame it.

If i was selling it id keep the whole page

[drmondobueno]

No trim. They aren't printing any more pages from last century. Personally, I think the entire page adds to the charisma of the piece. IMhO

[Prof_Plum]

Increase matte width ? Or, what about folding back parts of the paper you don't want seen ? At least it's not quite as permanent as trimming.

[steve B]

I'd go with not trimming.

Part of the attraction to the whole page is the ads which give a nice feel for the era and how some things were viewed at the time. That's an element of things like this that I really like. Sometimes the articles are also interesting.

Hey, how many eyeglass places would adverise today with an ad showing a ball or globe covered with eyes? That's just surreal. The necktie ad is pretty cool too. Looks like the sort of tie you's see on the Old Judge cards. Either Hopelessly out of style by 1902 or back in style.

I'm guessing the paper may not fold well. Old newsprint can be brittle.


Another thing to consider would be that exposure to light does very bad things to most newsprint. Leave a new paper in a sunny spot for a month or two and see how browned the edges get compared to the bits inside. Framing may not be the best thing for the original, unless it's both deacidified and behind UV blocking glass.

So maybe a copy made from a high res scan framed and the original stored in a nice mylar sleeve out of the light?

Some Museums with a budget are doing that sort of thing with reference materials if the original is fragile and/or significant historically. A high quality copy is made as a master, then working copies are made from that. The originals are only used in special circumstances if at all.

Steve B

[travrosty]

it's yours do what you want with it. trim if you want.

[conor912]

If you want keep its resale value, don't trim it. If you want a nice display piece and were never planning on selling it anyways, then by all means trim it and frame it. I am not a purist and don't believe in keeping things intact if I can enjoy the, another more another way. Keeping something in a box or a drawer when it would better trimmed, framed and on my wall is a no brainier for me. That said, I would leave the entire top section intact like in pic two. Pic 3 looks weird, plus the ad gives it some nice historical context. When framing it, consider having the paper itself de-acidified. It will prevent any further discoloration.

[Chris-Counts]

How about framing a high quality scan of the team photo and storing the original away?