An Early 20thC Hand-Painted Fairground Sign; Children’s Joy; c.1910 sub-Macabre- Medicine this man is not going

this man is not going to be obsolete one feels

and wooden composition parts with the carved wooden hands painted in a light skin colour and the whole surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century

capturing contours and surface details in a negative impression

Somewhat curious

the beautifully foxed ebonised mirror with a gilded slip to a ripple reeded frame having the original heavy mercury mirror glass plate and boarded pine backing

An Early 20thC Hand-Painted Fairground Sign; Children’s Joy; c.1910 sub-Macabre- Medicine this man is not goingOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Edwardian Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1910Width: 31. 5Height: 6. 5The decorative hand painted fairground, sign designed to draw in the crowds at fairgrounds in the early twentieth century, sign written with the words Childrens Joy, in green with yellow highlights and shadowed in orange, the whole being an early example of fairground and circus memorabilia. Suspended from two corner holes, the panel has paint flaking to several