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A Wonderful Mid 20thC Hand Painted "100 Smiles Per Hour" Fairground Panel SignOrigin: 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,

made by the Aimaq people in the Qala-e-Now region

besides every other species of artistical materials and implements of every variety and in endless quantity'

This became the standard work on the subject and eight editions were produced up to 1925

with intricate ring work rim to both the top and bottom

Winchester”

perhaps once belonging to a rather small chap one presumes

This item was owned by Vernon Cross Esq

On his travels

So it was believed that by examining the shape and unevenness of a head or skull

Some day my heart will bound

Sarah Bernhardt

but in its current form