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Photo Frames Lot of 20+ (23)
Alternates: 20+ Picture Frames (18) Brass & Pewter Frames (21) Picture Frame Group Lot (23)
HiBid DESCRIPTION
LARGE GROUP OF PICTURE FRAMES - BRASS AND GOLD TONE TABLETOP FRAMES, ORNATE PEWTER AND SILVER TONE FRAMES WITH ROSE AND FLORAL CASTING, A BASKETBALL FIGURAL FRAME, A PAINTED WOOD SPRING FRAME, HINGED DOUBLE FRAMES, AND A FRAMED VICTORIAN GIRL PRINT
A big mixed group of picture frames out of this estate, sized from small 2 by 3 inch keepsake frames up to an 8 by 10 wall frame, and covering most of the styles a household accumulates over the years. The brass and gold tone frames make up the bulk of the group, including several hinged double frames that stand open in a V, plain narrow-profile brass frames, gold frames with a beaded or rope-cast edge, and gold frames with a heavier scrolled and pierced ornament at the corners. Alongside those is a run of ornate pewter and silver tone frames with cast rose, ribbon, and floral relief, including a matched pair of standing rose-cast frames with painted pink roses and green leaves, a small bow-and-roses rectangle, a small floral oval, and a three-opening silver tone frame with a rose crest at the top. Rounding out the lot are a figural pewter basketball frame with a molded player, backboard, hoop, shoes, and ball, a bright painted wood frame with birds on a picket fence and tulips and daffodils in yellow, purple, teal, and red, a chrome or nickel finish frame, a hinged gold double oval frame, a large plain wood frame with glass, and one frame that comes with a sepia print of a Victorian girl holding roses already in it. Most are empty with factory corrugated cardboard or brown backer board still in place. This is a good utility lot for a booth dealer, a photographer, a wedding or gallery-wall project, or a household that needs frames by the box. Bidders should note these are used frames with rubbing, wear, and tarnish to the finishes, dust and spotting on the glass and backer boards, and one plain wood frame with a visibly clouded or hazed glass. Sold as one lot of frames as pictured.
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Count - approximately 20 to 22 frames are visible in the group photograph. The frames were not individually counted or itemized, so no exact count is claimed and bidders should count from the group photograph and satisfy themselves before bidding.
Brass and gold tone frames - the largest group. Includes at least two hinged double frames, each with two matched brass panels joined by a hinge so they stand open, one pair with a fine beaded edge and one pair with a heavier engine-turned edge, measuring approximately 7 inches tall by roughly 9 inches wide across both panels open per the tape-measure photographs. Also several single brass frames with narrow profiles and rope or beaded edging, approximately 5 by 7 inches, and a taller plain brass frame approximately 7-1/4 inches tall. A pair of gold tone frames with heavy pierced scrollwork at the corners measures approximately 7 inches tall each, roughly 10-1/2 inches wide as a pair. A larger gold tone wall or easel frame with cast corner ornaments measures approximately 8 inches tall by 10-1/2 inches or better wide, sized for an 8 by 10 photograph. Most retain their original corrugated cardboard filler.
Hinged double oval frame - a gold or champagne tone hinged double panel with two oval mat openings, measuring approximately 5-1/2 inches tall by roughly 8 inches wide open per the tape-measure photograph.
Pewter and silver tone frames - a matched pair of standing frames with heavy cast rose vine borders, the roses hand-tinted pink and the leaves tinted teal green, on black velvet-covered feet, each measuring approximately 5-1/2 inches tall by roughly 4-1/2 inches wide, one showing an aged silvered mat and one bright white. A three-opening horizontal frame in silver tone with a cast rose and scroll crest at the top and beaded borders, measuring approximately 4-1/4 inches tall by 6-1/2 inches or better wide per the tape-measure photographs. A small rectangular frame with a cast bow and roses at the corner and a small oval frame with a cast floral and ribbon border, both with wire easel backs, measuring roughly 2-1/2 to 3 inches tall each.
Figural basketball frame - pewter tone cast frame with a molded basketball player figure at the right side going up for a shot, a backboard and net at the upper left, and a basketball, high-top shoes, and a whistle cast along the bottom, measuring roughly 4 inches tall.
Painted wood spring frame - a novelty frame carved and painted as a yellow picket fence with five small birds in green, purple, yellow, red, and blue perched along the top rail and tulips and daffodils across the bottom, with purple and white checkerboard trim bands, measuring approximately 5-1/2 inches tall by roughly 4-1/4 inches wide.
Chrome or nickel finish frame - a plain stepped-profile frame in bright silver finish with brown backer board, approximately 7 i