Patent ID: 8146280

Claim:
A decorative frame assembly comprising: a perimeter frame member having a plurality of corners and an outwardly facing frame face substrate, such outwardly facing substrate having a decorative component that provides decorative aspects to the frame assembly, wherein said decorative component had been generated by direct reproduction from an original having chosen appearance characteristics, the decorative component exclusively being a photograph of a preexisting decorative picture frame; said perimeter frame member having a non-projecting state at which the entire perimeter frame member lies along a common plane, and corner cuts define a pair of opposing flaps, each flap being foldable along a line of the perimeter frame member, the pair of flaps being at each said corner and defining a gap between each pair of flaps, said perimeter frame member also having a projecting frame state; said perimeter frame member has a flat frame member projecting inwardly with respect to the frame member and remaining flat at the projecting frame state, the flat frame member having a front face, and said decorative component photograph of the preexisting picture frame extends over said flat frame member front face as well as said perimeter frame member at the projecting frame state; a backboard member having a central area adapted to receive an item to be displayed within the frame assembly, said backboard member further including a display facilitating element; said perimeter frame member includes an enclosed area through which the item to be displayed is visible when the backboard and perimeter frame member are joined together and the item to be displayed is located therebetween; and said perimeter frame member has a miter location at each said corner, each miter location is a mitered assembly of said pair of opposing flaps of the perimeter frame member, each said gap is filled by said pair of flaps and said flaps engage each other when said perimeter is at said projecting frame state to define the mitered assembly, thereby providing a three-dimensional appearance whereby the pair of opposing flaps project outwardly relative to said common plane; whereby a decorative frame assembly is provided that mimics a preexisting decorative picture frame.