An Original Vintage Fairground Advertising Sign for 'The Ragtime Box Ball Game' sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Depth: 15 inches (at base)

Depth: 15 inches (at base)

Joseph Gloster worked from the Lion Silver Works on Hockley Hill in Birmingham from around 1880

He could also be utilised as a ready made bin top ready to gobble up any public waste

5 inches (at widest point)

Rosewood is among the heaviest and densest of all furniture wood

An Original Vintage Fairground Advertising Sign for 'The Ragtime Box Ball Game' sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Depth: 15 inches (at base)Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1920 Height: 24 inches Width: 19. 5 inches Simply, yet strikingly printed in green on white paper, laid on board. The sign is lettered in a typical ornate style, with some areas of browning, but nonetheless is overall in good and attractive condition. We are not quite sure what the 'Ragtime Box Ball Game' was, but presumably it involved rolling balls towards holes to obtain a high score. The