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Photo Frame Perspective

A frame the picture slides into. Two flat parts press together and leave a slot along the top edge: drop the print in and it sits behind the window — no glass, no clips, no tabs to bend. Sized exactly to the print: the photo-booth strip, an Instax Mini or Square, a Polaroid, a wallet print, the 4 × 6 from the drugstore, a 5 × 7. A caption on the bottom rail if you want one, a keyhole on the back for the wall, a foot for the shelf.

Up to 24 letters, inlaid flush on the bottom rail in the second colour. Leave it empty for a plain rail.

How it works. The front is a 2 mm plate with the window cut through it and, on its back, a rim round three sides — bottom and both sides, the top left open — as tall as the pocket is deep. The back is a 1.6 mm plate that presses onto four pegs on that rim. Between them: a pocket 1.6 mm deep and a slot along the top edge. The print drops in, sits 0.8 mm loose each side, and the window overlaps it by 2.5 mm all round so it can't fall through. A Polaroid, a photo-booth strip on thin paper, a drugstore print — all sit in the same pocket. To change the picture, slide it out the top.

On the wall, on the shelf. Every frame has a keyhole on the back for a nail (rails of 14 mm and up). The shelf foot is a 70 mm bar with a groove that leans the frame back 12°; the frame's bottom edge drops into it.

Printing. Both plates print flat, the front face down, so the face is glass-smooth; no supports anywhere. The caption is inlaid flush — a second colour 0.6 mm into the face — so nothing catches. Small (strip, Instax, Polaroid, wallet) $12; 4 × 6 $16; 5 × 7 $20.