Decorative mirrored article with bevel-effect producing edges

Claim 1

In a decorative rectangular mirrored article comprising a generally transparent plate of substantially the same thickness throughout including the marginal portions thereof, and have a plurality of straight edges intersecting at various corners of the plate, there being a mirror-forming surface at the rear of the plate, the improvement comprising means forming within a band along each margin of the plate and visible from the front of the plate what appears to be a bevelled edge therealong, said means along said band along each margin of the plate comprising spaced, light interrupting areas behind which said mirror-forming surface extends to reflect light to the front of the plate between said light interrupting areas, said spaced light interrupting areas being so small as not to be readily individually descernible at usual viewing distances, the density of said light interrupting areas and hence the degree to which said light interrupting areas affects light reflection at the ends of said bands varying thereat so that at the confronting ends of each adjacent pair of said bands there is a relatively high density portion of said light interrupting areas of one band opposite a relatively low dense portion of the light interrupting areas of the other band along a line substantially bisecting the angle between the plate edges at the corner of the plate involved, so as to form what appears to be a mitered joint along said line at each corner of the plate.