Nice Old Tramp Art Frame (with Mirror), Slide Opening Nina winkle art West Africa

West Africa

if not for a doll

usually women

and a rare one to feature the inlay of whole pearls

this would make a spectacular table runner

Nice Old Tramp Art Frame (with Mirror), Slide Opening Nina winkle art West AfricaQuite a smart looking old tramp frame, deriving its specialness not from a volume of stacked layers but rather from the care taken with the individual bits, including nicely carved rounds at the corners and intensively textured (stippled) surfaces on the chip carved pieces. With its original backing, made to allow for the sliding in and out of glass, a picture, or a mirror, which is what it is holding now. The mirror is not original but everything