Fry's advertising sign sold for £5500 at Lindsay Burns auction

Just a little less famous than Fry’s 'Five Boys' image is the illustration by Tom Browne of a multi-class group outside a sweetshop with the line from 'Troilus and Cressida: One touch of Nature makes the whole World kin'.

Dated c.1905, the advertising sign made a big enough hit to be produced on postcards and today is …

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