A Wonderful c.1940 Hand Painted Fairground Booth Sign; “Gipsy Smith Romany Palmist” Size:Default Title both on a red shield

both on a red shield

Cobalt bottles

If the mysterious author can be revealed as a Titanic survivor then this card transforms from an already significantly valuable post card to a hugely important piece of ephemera

and commensurate with age

She would have had a number of pony-drawn invalid carriages at each of her favourite residences

A Wonderful c.1940 Hand Painted Fairground Booth Sign; “Gipsy Smith Romany Palmist” Size:Default Title both on a red shieldOrigin: English Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1920 50 Width: 14. 75 inches Height: 30 inches The thin board ebony ground sign with gold hand painted script advertising the palmist and clairvoyant Gipsy Smith, an original Romany gipsy, survives from the second quarter of the twentieth century, the sign reading Gipsy Smith Romany Palmist, Your Councillor & Friend ~ if you are not afriad (sic) to face facts reading will