Illustrated catalogue and price list of frames, mouldings, backing, solid walnut work, &c.
A trade catalogue issued in 1872 by Hale, Kilburn & Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, offering picture frames, mouldings, backing and solid walnut work to picture dealers and retail buyers. Its plates show oval-windowed frames with a simple profile figure set inside each oval, each frame differing in its corner ornament and moulded border. A designer could take from them the range of Victorian oval frame borders, from plain beaded rims to fretwork corners and scrolled spandrels.
