Baluster support bracket

A bracket adapted to be removably mounted on a vertical support such as a baluster, having a cross-section with a front face and a rear face and substantially flat sides, the bracket consisting of:

• an upper support arm terminating at an inner end in a substantially horizontal planar hook portion offset to a first substantially horizontal side of the upper support arm, the hook portion having a forwardly-facing opening facing in a direction substantially parallel to the upper support arm and adapted to frictionally engage the substantially flat sides of a vertical support from a rear face of a vertical support;
• a lower support arm extending downwardly and rearwardly from an outer part of the upper support arm at an acute angle, the upper and lower support arms defining a substantially vertical plane substantially perpendicular to the plane of the hook portion, the lower support arm terminating in a foot extending to the first substantially horizontal side from the lower support arm in a plane substantially perpendicular to the substantially vertical plane of the upper and lower support arms such that the foot and the hook portion's forwardly-facing opening are aligned to the first substantially horizontal side of the substantially vertical plane defined by the upper and lower support arms with the foot spaced forwardly of and below the hook portion, the foot adapted to abut a front face of a vertical support if the hook portion is placed over a rear face of a vertical support such that the upper support arm extends is substantially horizontal wherein the width of the opening of the hook portion is adapted to be substantially equal to a width of a vertical support between its substantially flat sides, and the width of the base of the hook portion is adapted to be less than a width of a vertical support between the its substantially flat sides.