A tack for hanging an article from a wall. The tack includes a plate and a
pin. The plate abuts the wall. The pin has a picture-engaging portion
extending diagonally upwardly and forwardly from the plate to engage the
picture and a wall-engaging portion extending diagonally downwardly and
rearwardly from the plate to penetrate the wall when the plate is pressed
by a thumb of a user. In one embodiment, the wall-engaging portion of the
pin is singular and collinear with the picture-engaging portion of the
pin. In another embodiment, the wall-engaging portion of the pin is
doubled to form a pair of wall-engaging portions that straddle, and are
parallel to, the picture-engaging portion of the pin. In another
embodiment, the plate has a lower portion with a pair of axial legs
terminating in free ends that are beveled for safety and an upper portion
with a pair of axial legs having a pair of spikes, respectively,
extending diagonally downwardly and rearwardly therefrom to penetrate the
wall when the plate is pressed by the thumb of the user, and which are
one piece with, and stamped and bent from, the pair of axial legs of the
upper portion of the plate, respectively, and which are parallel to,
spaced from, and straddle, the wall-engaging portion of the pin.