A frame to display your CGC book.

[Forbush-Man]

I posted this in The Marketplace Forum previously, thought I'd post it here to see what you all think.

 

Okay. First off, I am just providing this as a "Public Service Announcement" as I have no affiliation with the company which produces these frames. I just thought someone may find this of interest. If this should be in The Marketplace Forum, I will move it there.

 

The frames are designed for display of CGC books. All backing's are archival grade. You can choose Glass or Plexiglass, UV Protected and UV Protected, Non-Glare. The frame shown costs $130.00 (tax is included).

 

 

 

Here's what it looks like:

 

Here's the back:

 

The Frame and CGC book seperate:

 

Here's how it works: Step 1, 2 & 3...

 

 

 

 

Here's a scan with a Golden Age book.

 

If there's any interest I'll provide an email address for more information.

 

[Apotheosis]

There's also one available from BCEMylar.com as well... and it's only $25.50...

 

 

Link to frame

[the blob]

i remember pondering the design of this about 2 years ago and trying to figure out if i could patent it. oh well, so much for bright ideas but poor execution.

 

$130 is nuts for this though. the cheaper one is practical, but looks a bit shoddy.

[pjthib]

I purchased some really nice frames from comicframes.com. He has a ton of frames to choose from and was very good to deal with. The only problem I had was the size of his silver sized mylar for the raw book frame I purchased was a bit too small. That Avengers #4 in his gallery has a slight rip in the spine from when i was putting the book in the mylar. That was a ways back so he might have fixed the issue.

 

The CGC frames are great and it's easy to switch books out.

 

I think it was about $60-$70 per frame.

 

linky

[Apotheosis]

That site has some nice frames. Much better than the other two frames. It looks like they're about $75 - $80 with UV Protection on the glaze.

 

Here's a question though... will the UV protection make it safe to hang or do we still have a problem with fading?

[pjthib]

I believe that the UV glass filters out around 97% of damaging rays so unfortunately the protection is not total and you still need to be careful.

 

Here are the precautions I take:

 

- No sunlight allowed in the room.

- Regular light bulbs - Fluorescent and hallogen light are bad.

- Keep the books in a room that doesn't have the lights turned on 14 hours a day. I keep mine in my office so the lights are only on a couple of hours a day at most.

- Switch out the books every few months

 

Doing this, I have never been able to detect any fading. The only book I haven't switched out is that Avengers #4 I mentioned because I don't want to damage another book fitting it into the small mylar. I wish I had scanned it before framing so I could re-scan to see if there was fading. It doesn't look like it has faded a bit.

 

Pete