Framed Sheep Skin Diploma

Are you lucky enough to have a real sheepskin diploma belonging to one of your grand-parents or great-grand-parents? Have you not displayed it because it looks so yellowed and wrinkled after a hundred years or so of storage? Be encouraged, it probably didn’t look much different when it was first presented to the graduate. An original sheepskin is just what it sounds like: the tanned hide of the sheep, used instead of paper for an official document. It is such a rare treasure, that if you have one among the family antiques, frame it and display it in all its splendor. This one was a gift to a newly-graduated attorney: his grand-father’s law diploma from 1934.

Take it to your framer who will treat it more like cloth than paper, and NEVER, NEVER APPLY HEAT to it to mount it, or you will need a magnifying glass to read it. Frame it and flaunt it. It will bring the oohs and aahs of everyone who sees it. And if anyone comments on its wrinkles, tell them that sheep are not flat!

Yours,

Blue