Matching Pair of Antique Tramp Art Frames Art Deco design against a painterly pale pink

against a painterly pale pink ground

I applied silver polish to the front of this pin and it shines brightly

as if he might just float like this everywhere and forever

It feels very French to me

Seemingly never used

Matching Pair of Antique Tramp Art Frames Art Deco design against a painterly pale pinkThe backs of these terrific old tramp art frames late 19th or early 20th century I believe are almost as great as their fronts, and wonderfully tell the story of their construction from scraps of wood and and bits of woven trim for their hangers. Their fronts show five layers of stacked chip carved wood at the corners, topped with brass tacks at the center of each, and four layers around the sides. I can't see that their is any wood that has been