A Wonderful Mid 20thC Hand Painted "100 Smiles Per Hour" Fairground Panel Sign sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The earliest illustrations known of

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There is some light fraying to the edges of the fabric and one small area of sun light fade to one end with one end of the red ground more grubby than the other but generally the flag and the pole are in good condition

Essex and Beck & Son of Stoke Neweington N16 London

A Wonderful Mid 20thC Hand Painted "100 Smiles Per Hour" Fairground Panel Sign sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The earliest illustrations known ofOrigin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 Width: 53 inches Height: 8 inches Depth: 0. 1 inches The rectangular hand painted fairground sign designed to draw in the crowds at fairgrounds in the mid twentieth century, exclaiming 100 Smiles Per Hour painted on a sunshine yellow ground. Suspended from two corner holes, the panel originally had a red border which is lacking and has paint flaking to several areas,