Un hobby que les traería reconocimiento y dinero a
una pareja, Clint
y Alys Litchfield, durante la Gran Depresión. Un artículo
de Mechanix Illustrated de la década
de los ´50s
An anemic used-car business
struggling to stay ahead of the waning depression in 1937 was Clint
Litchfield´s main source of income when he and Alys were married. Clint´s side
line of framing pictures was, from the profit standpoint, more of a hobby. As
for Alys she was an ardent collector of old original color prints, the
hand-colored kind, and books published in the days before modern lithography
and linotype machines.
The used-car business occupied most
of Clint’s time but the stack of rare prints became the basis for an idea “We
wondered why we couldn´t mount and frame this antique art and sell it to
collectors,” Alys said.