A Framed & Glazed National Insurance Acts Poster; A Notice to Dockworkers c.1938

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A Framed & Glazed National Insurance Acts Poster; A Notice to Dockworkers c.1938Origin: English Period: Early Mid Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1938 45 Height: 21. 25 inches Width: 16. 25 inches Framed: 19. 5 X 14. 5 inches Condition: B In typically bold font, the standard issue size form 543 NI headed poster reading Notice to Dockworkers, with explanatory text beneath warning of that all persons liable to health, pensions or unemployment insurance are required, under the above acts, to produce their employers

The company was best known for their bags such as this one

Made by the 'Reliable Doll' Company in Canada and modelled on the original dummy of Charlie McCarthy

The main field is populated with twelve smaller tarantula motifs with rosettes at one end and stylized birds at the other

Depth: 15 inches (at base)

The sixty-something Guy sweeps the floor

sound condition

Thus we can deduce the former owner Miss Mortimer (no 407) used this depository when perhaps moving home in the Cheltenham area before 1976

it puts the whole and entire emphasis on the frog

script notes and other fascinating ephemera

from drawings by the late John Flaxman

To the reverse of the painting are the remains of a South African label that reads

Beautifully aged rosewood with a patina that is full of character