The curio : an illustrated monthly magazine (1887)
[New York : R.W. Wright] · leaf 181
tion ofsubjects on the old English sign boards arosefrom the fact that when a publican removed toanother tavern he added generall\- the old nameto the new. This doubling up process mayaccount for such signs as The iXngel andStill, Bible and Peacock, Blue Peruke and Star. and • Two Flower Pots and… … The Xags Head. very rare, of tlie entry of Queen Marie de Medi-cis on her visit to Henrietta Marie Queen ofCharles I. The crown of evergreens suspendedfrom the sign was evidently intended to repre-sent the Bush or early tavern sign, though itmay have been a special decoration for the oc-casion. The…
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