A Fabulous Large Early 20thC Double Sided & Hand Painted "Way Out / William Hicks Fruitier" Sign sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The four-year-old fox cub believed

The four-year-old fox cub believed to be called Colin from Wiggen Hall St Mary Magdalen

the red and white both being printed

Edward Bland

the way in which we now expect a door stop to look and function today was down to a 19th century African American inventor named Osbourn Dorsey who came up with the design on December 10

Date: 1895

A Fabulous Large Early 20thC Double Sided & Hand Painted "Way Out / William Hicks Fruitier" Sign sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles The four-year-old fox cub believedOrigin: Unknown Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1910 40 Width: 33 inches Height: 12 inches Depth: 2 inches (at maximum) The generously proportioned double sided hand painted oak sign survives from the second quarter of the twentieth century with one side in saffron and ruby showing Way Out, the other William Hicks Fruitier in teal, off white and black. Double sided and once suspended, the board now with just the two holes