Three Thrifted Things and a Walk in the Park - July 8, 2022

Just one thrifted thing today.  There will be many more on Tuesday!

Rescued from the Goodwill Bins:

Print of Chartres (a city in France), from the painting by Constant Leon Duval, by the printing company Braun & Cie, France.  Print number is 01344.  

 This is printed on the back. 

I spent hours researching this print.  The best I can guess is it's early 1940's, using the process of carbon printing.  The company, founded by Adolph Braun, started using the "Braun & Cie" name in 1910, when his son Gaston took over after his father's death.  I found other  prints online with many different forms of labels and marks.  Some on the front. Some embossed.  Some printed on the back.  I found only one, without photos, mentioning an "old label" fitting the description of mine.  Only, it isn't a "label," it's printed, you can eve see the rectangle from the front where the wet ink almost came through.  Many had print numbers and dates.  If we are to assume (and I am assuming) the numbers increased with time, I found one from 1946 numbered 01601.  Later years, 50's and 60's (the company closed in 1969) have much higher numbers.  

A carbon print is a photographic print using pigmented gelatin  instead of metal.  It produces high quality, true to the original color, prints that are resistant to fading.  It's greatest use initially was for reproductions of works of the Great Masters.  It quickly became popular with Adolph Braun, who made that his primary focus.  He even got a franchise for printing in France and Belgium.

I learned quite a bit about early printing methods!  Coincidentally, just a few days ago my son showed me a video on printing with potato starch.  Potato starch still uses the silver gelatin doesn't.  These older prints do not have the dots of ink jet or dot matrix prints, or the newer gilcee ink jets. 

Whew... sorry about that. 

Hope you didn't mind this short detour from the garden today!  I'm taking a short detour from the garden today too, literally.  It's fairly hot, although not as hot as Monday is forecast to be.  Mickey and I took a walk to the park, but at 1:00 it was already a bit warm and humid from the rain a few days ago.  He conked out on the living room floor, and hasn't moved since!  He really dislikes the heat. 

This was the view of Roxy Ann Peak from the park.

Here's a zoom of a jet coming in for a landing at the airport.