A Very Large & Highly Desirable Early Hand Painted Fairground Art Canvas Banner; 'Play Up Boys' c.1930 sub-Curios Daredevil Stunts

Daredevil Stunts

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an award which is elsewhere identified for his enormously famous “Shilling Colour Box”

having a faux pearl clasp

Whilst we find these cards very non 'PC'

A Very Large & Highly Desirable Early Hand Painted Fairground Art Canvas Banner; 'Play Up Boys' c.1930 sub-Curios Daredevil StuntsOrigin: British Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1920 40 Width: 165 inches Height: 33. 5 inches Boasting huge amounts of early fairground charm, the hand painted canvas banner measuring well over thirteen foot long reading in blood red circus block font script on a dirty buff ground; Play Up Boys, 3 Balls for 2D, Smash 2 Pipes to Win. Advertising a typical fairground game of skill with a ball, (and a large amount of luck),