A Large French Giltwood Overmantle Mirror c.1880 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus There is the former owners

There is the former owners name inscribed in pencil to the interior in lovely script but it is hard to decipher

and two or three of the end cut outs have been later replaced

survives as a beautiful decorative element

and slot machines

and since they are woven principally in the tents

A Large French Giltwood Overmantle Mirror c.1880 sub-Fairground-Sideshow & Circus There is the former ownersOrigin: French Period: 3rd Republic Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1880 Height: 63 Depth: 2. 5 Width: 47 The large and wonderfully decorative overmantle mirror, at over five feet high, having the original heavy mercury glass plate surrounded by an acanthus giltwood and gesso frame to a gadrooned border terminating in a naturalistic scrolled shell cresting, the whole surviving from 3rd republic France. The original mirror plate has attractive foxing,