A Pair of c.1900 Reverse Glass Painted Publican Advertising Signs for Irish Rums

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A Pair of c.1900 Reverse Glass Painted Publican Advertising Signs for Irish RumsOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 Height: 5. 25 Width: 26. 75 Depth: 0. 25 (each) The wonderfully decorative high Victorian reverse glass painted signwritten advertising signs for Irish Rums, one with shaped ends, the gold three dimensional block script painted on black highlights, to a green coloured ground, each with modern hanging fixtures and surviving from the zeniths of the nineteenth century. The signs

The papier-mâché and composition fabric webbing head with wooden base and metal framed bridge nose having a weighted automaton movement operating the eyes

' His health gave way at this time

to celebrate the achievements of the past century and to accelerate development into the next

The eight plates offered

and is overall in fine condition

The mirror swings freely and both the paint and the mirror plate are untouched and original to the piece with some small areas of chipping

It would have been one of several mounted on the canopy of a hoopla stall

The first time on this shore

Finely cast in bronze

or even “Dr Scott's Electric hairbrush”

with virtually no known middle class

would have carried at least woollen 7

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