A Superb Mid 20thC Hand Painted "Hold Your Hats" Fairground Panel Sign sub-Antiques While he was in London

While he was in London in 1929

when colourful tin-glazed tiles began to be imported from Holland

The balmy combination of the palm tree and elephant as bedfellows has appeared in other pairs of candlesticks over time

After realising he was going to be lonely without company in such a large castle he set about populating the building and grounds with a menagerie of animals and in tandem with his gun dogs he kept a tame buzzard named Maude who he kept in the top of the tower

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A Superb Mid 20thC Hand Painted "Hold Your Hats" Fairground Panel Sign sub-Antiques While he was in LondonOrigin: English Period: Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1940 60 Width: 42 inches Height: 13 inches Depth: 1 inches The rectangular hand painted fairground sign designed to draw in the crowds at fairgrounds in the mid twentieth century, exclaiming Hold Your Hats painted on a sunshine yellow ground with ruby red border. Suspended from two corner holes, the panel has paint flaking to several areas and scuffs commensurate with age (it