Subject: mounting wooden typesetters box

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 22:01:18 -0600

I have an antique type setter's tray -- shallow wooden box with many
small compartments -- that I want to mount on the wall.  The problem with
my original plan, which was to simply screw it into the wall through the
back panel, is that the back panel is a thin sheet of wood that
is cracking badly.  I don't want it to split any more, and I'd prefer not
to do anything that permanently obscures the back panel since, though I'm
mounting it on a wall for now, it has an old advertisment on the back that
is kind of interesting.  Any ideas on how to hang this as a display case?

Thanks for any advice.

R.F.

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From: John Brock <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 13:01:31 +0100

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If the sides are structurally sound, you could attach hook eyes and
picture wire to it and hang it like a picture.  If you don't want to
damage it with eyes, perhaps a wood or metal frame could be built around
the sides to give you something to attach to for hanging.  If you are
worried about people touching it but still want it displayed, a close
fitting lexan box could be built that would hold it but then it would
look like the art displayed in an air terminal.  Hmmm....

-JB

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From: "Herbert C. Breese" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 00:40:11 -0500

> look like the art displayed in an air terminal.  Hmmm....

for a while in the seventies, people made platforms with plywood on legs
with molding around the edge, just big enough for the type case to be
held horizontally, and covered the top with a large piece of glass to
protect the goodies within.

actually, a rather cheap conversational coffee table.

b