A Late-19thC Folk Art Painted Metal Milliners Trade Sign formed as a Top Hat; Annie Gold; French Milliner; Spitalfields, London sub-Art & Sculpture In Germany from whence he

In Germany from whence he came

and the rock base would suggest she may have been intended to be within this type of environment

on a square base with further paterae

with one mid-1930s newspaper article stating

and remains in as found condition

A Late-19thC Folk Art Painted Metal Milliners Trade Sign formed as a Top Hat; Annie Gold; French Milliner; Spitalfields, London sub-Art & Sculpture In Germany from whence heOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Provenance: Annie Gold; French Milliner; Spitalfields, London Date: c. 1889 1892 Height: 9. 75 Width: 14 Depth: 16. 5 The hand cut and riveted sheet metal shop or trade sign in the form of black top hat, showing an good aged patina and retaining the original paint, of high crowned form, the whole hailing from the milliners shop of Annie Gold, 42 Brushfield Street, Spitalfields, London, in the latter part of the