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Did a similar job for a customer last year, his number was on a ceramic tile. Used a Polecore frame but made it clear that we were giving no guarantees about its longevity outdoors.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing"
(Also known as John, the current forum administrator)
I made a FOR SALE sign board for the last property I sold out of correx and stuck a polcore moulding on it to neaten it up, which was outside for at least six months and was absolutley fine.
It stood up well to every element known to man including snow and frost! It would probably have lasted forever, but fortunately I got a sale before It's durablility was tested to the extreme
I chucked a frame out in the garden one day. It was a nice frame - hand-finshed with water-gilded sections. But it had woodworm After about two years in the hedge-bottom I dragged it out. All the gesso had come off. I noticed that two of the rails were free of worm, so I chopped it into a 10x8" and refinished it. (After drying it out and scraping all the moss off and giving it a good going-over with fungicide wash).
It made a nice (smaller) frame.
I used some unfinished moulding to replace a uPVC door frame.
Cut them on the morso, then had to trim them at an angle because the opening wasn't square.
I had a 4ft length of 4" mahogany moulding from Magnolia Mouldings left over from a commission, long after The Magnolia Group disappeared I had a request to make a Championship Trophy for best of Breed for an Agricultural Livestock Society, the length of moulding, about £5 /m in 1980 made a superb plinth with a flat mahogany band for the silver engraved plates to be fixed on. No chance that I will be around to supply the second matching tier if the Breed society survives that long or it could be .
If one delves into the depths of horizontal framing with bases and plinths, then this would be a rich area to explore framing the unusual .
To pick one; A table center for a buffet, to hold an ice-mound for the display of shellfish. The internal part of the frame was a glass construction using silicone sealer that allowed for the separation of an ice freezing mixture to reduce the temperature of the surface ice.
132400000 from Arqadia, laid flat on its back and cut so there is no hole in the middle, makes a good coaster with a small lip to prevent your cup slipping off.
155400000 was used to make a small fort for my children to play with their toy soldiers.
A45 from Rose and Hollis made pontoons, also to be used with Airfix tanks, planes and boats.
And we also used moulding to make stock boxes for model railway engines and coaches.
Makes us wonder when we have time to actually make picture frames with it!
Jo Palmer GCF(APF) Adv
Textile, Mount Design & Function & Conservation
Forum Moderator & Framing Educator www.pictureframingtraining.com
Guild Certified Examiner & Guild Accredited Trainer
Guild Master from May 2019 to May 2022
After about two years in the hedge-bottom I dragged it out. All the gesso had come off. I noticed that two of the rails were free of worm, so I chopped it into a 10x8" and refinished it. (After drying it out and scraping all the moss off and giving it a good going-over with fungicide wash). 
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