hand cut metal cinema marquee letters pierhead artist or painter is

pierhead artist or painter is the term usually given to a self taught artist who specialised in painting ship portraits for the men and women who sailed them

picture size h230mm x w 210mm

even though the elephant is not a significant animal in efic culture

450mm diameter

a large antique african efik hand embossed brass charger

hand cut metal cinema marquee letters pierhead artist or painter islarge l and m hand cut metal cinema marquee letters letter height 325 mm a large l and m made of metal and dating from the mid 1930's to the mid 1940's. the letters would have originally been part of an alphabet placed on the marquee of a London west end cinema to spell out the name of the production on show at the time.