An Early 20thC Hand-Painted Fairground Sign; Children’s Joy; c.1910 sub-Macabre- Medicine and wooden composition parts with

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

There are few small sections of abrasion marks and wear to the collars and feet

putti and Baccus heads

wearing a black jacket with lace trim and polka dot under garment

This is an early design and the animal handle is unusual

An Early 20thC Hand-Painted Fairground Sign; Children’s Joy; c.1910 sub-Macabre- Medicine and wooden composition parts withOrigin: 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