A Hand Painted Pointing Hand Fairground Panel Sign; Try Your Skill c.1940 sub-Macabre- Medicine 2018Height: 26

2018Height: 26

depicting a large carved white marble classical urn

They released fourteen machines under this trade name

There are vertical brackets to the rear where it would have been mounted originally

Wednesbury itself was at the centre of a vast area of industrialisation

A Hand Painted Pointing Hand Fairground Panel Sign; Try Your Skill c.1940 sub-Macabre- Medicine 2018Height: 26Origin: EnglishPeriod: Early Mid 20thC Provenance: UnknownDate: c. 1940 50Width: 28. 75Height: 12. 75The double sided hand painted fairground sign designed to draw in the crowds at fairgrounds in the mid twentieth century, with Try Your Skill to one side and 4 Balls 2 D to the other, on a cream ground with ruby red sign written script. Suspended from two corner holes, the panel has a small amount of paint flaking to several areas and scuffs