A Hand Painted Pointing Hand Fairground Panel Sign; Try Your Skill c.1940 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Mediaeval Statues of the Virgin

Mediaeval Statues of the Virgin in Lorraine Related in Type to the Saint-Die Virgin

usually over doorways

they can inflate themselves with water or air and balloon up to three times their normal size

Pigs can fly

A Hand Painted Pointing Hand Fairground Panel Sign; Try Your Skill c.1940 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus Mediaeval Statues of the VirginOrigin: 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