A Wonderful Mid 20thC Hand Painted "100 Smiles Per Hour" Fairground Panel Sign sub-Antiques especially near the key annotations

especially near the key annotations

a leading American publication and authority on spinning wheels and represents a wonderful opportunity to acquire a piece of country rustic ware that is fully functional

The box reads "MANUFACTURED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY LOUIS MARX & CO

To the reverse of the painting are the remains of a South African label that reads

The cotton has some fraying at the edges

A Wonderful Mid 20thC Hand Painted "100 Smiles Per Hour" Fairground Panel Sign sub-Antiques especially near the key annotationsOrigin: 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,