A Remarkable Signwritten Folk Art Tavern Sign With Finely Painted Rhyming Motto Original Hand Painted Pine Panel English, Suffolk, c.1840
15" high x 24 ¼" wide
Inscribed: "Customers Came and i Did Trust Them So i Lost My Liquor and Their Custom To Lose Them Both it Grieves Me Sore So i am Resolved to Trust no More Chalk is Useful say What you Will Chalk Never Pay the Brewers Bill. So i Will Strive to Mend & Keep a Decent Tap For Ready Money But no Strap. All you that Bring Tobacco here Must Pay For Pipes as Well as Beer."
Provenance: Removed from The Wild Man, Sproughton, Suffolk.
