FINE WORKMANSHIP

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 65, 10 December 1926, Page 10

FINE WORKMANSHIP

ELABORATE FRAMES OF LOCAL WOODS There are being exhibited at the present time in the main corridor of the third floor of the General Post Office two framed sets of New Zealand stamps and a series of views of New Zealand scenery, which figured at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, and also at the more recent Exhibition at Toronto, Canada. What is remarkable about these exhibits is the frames, which are comprised of thousands of pieces of all maimer of New Zealand woods assembled in a design of a most elaborate geometrical order. lhe workmanship involved in making such frames must have required not only great skill and deftness of touch in the handling to advantage of so many minute pieces of wood, but also a great deal of patience and a sense of exactitude quite extraordinary. These frames—there is one very large one and two smaller—are the work of Mr. A. Williamson, of Wadestown. late of the Post and Telegraph Department’s workshops, a cabinet-maker and artificer in wood of great talent It is understood that the three frames are to be shortly transferred to the office of the Postmaster-General.