Need advice on 1870's baseball team photograph display

[sayhey24]

I don't know enough about resoration to give you good advice, but I will say this -- WOW!


Greg

[ooo-ribay]

Beautiful piece, Taylor!

Would you say that it was "homemade" i.e. were the pictures glued to the board to make the display? If so, I think removing them and re-gluing to a new, stable backing might be appropriate. You would obviously want the new backing to have a vintage look.

Just my 2¢.

[ramram]

Personally, I love the original look of a piece like this. Once you've tampered with it you can't get ever get it back. I'd find a vintage frame befitting of this piece and replace the glass with UV protected glass and mount it in that.

Rob M.

[prewarsports]

That is a photographic proof. The larger images and wording were arranged and then another photograph was taken to create the finished composite photo from the photographer so he could then sell the smaller piece with all the players on it. Having said that, what you have is a unique piece of history arranged by the original photographer so I would not touch it. Frame it and leave it.

Beautiful piece!

Rhys

[quitcrab]

Keep it as is ....place it flat between aci∂ free paper or matt boar∂ to store it. Michaels or AC Moore has aci∂ free paper/matt boar∂.
Posterfix in Brooklyn NY woul∂ be a great place for restoration if you choose to ∂o so.
Scott

[MGHPro]

Beautiful piece - I would personally leave it alone like the others said . Are any of the darker stains , mold ? If it's mold I would have that stabilized so it doesn't get worse
Matt

[Leon]

I vote for leaving it alone too. I would take it to a high end art framer and they can do a phenomenal job for very little money (relatively speaking). I think my Horner photo was done for around 300-350 and it's large at around 25 x 28 total inches, museum quality with triple matting and complete preservation materials were used. Well worth it for pieces like that one and yours. Yours is great looking. Congrats!!

[BeanTown]

+1 to everything below...

Originally Posted by prewarsports

That is a photographic proof. The larger images and wording were arranged and then another photograph was taken to create the finished composite photo from the photographer so he could then sell the smaller piece with all the players on it. Having said that, what you have is a unique piece of history arranged by the original photographer so I would not touch it. Frame it and leave it.

Beautiful piece!


Rhys

[Scott Garner]

Originally Posted by sayhey24

I don't know enough about resoration to give you good advice, but I will say this -- WOW!


Greg

+1 Very cool photo display!

[baseball tourist]

Awesome item!

[aquarius31]

Wow, certainly one of the most unique 19th century baseball items I've seen in quite some time...great pick-up!

I agree with other posters regarding keeping it as is and just having it properly matted and framed. On many of my 19th century display pieces, I've used a local frame shop to mat out in a way that hides some of the imperfections but still keeps it character.