An authentic English pub sign (one-sided) featuring a painting of a smiling man in full 17th century dress holding up an open pewter ale tankard, entitled: The Cavalier.

Cavalier was first used as a term for the wealthier Royalist supporters of King Charles I and his son Charles II of England during the English Civil War, the Interregnum, and the Restoration and was later adopted by the Royalists themselves. Although it referred originally to political and social attitudes and behaviour, of which clothing was a very small part, it has subsequently become strongly identified with the fashionable clothing of the court at the time.

A very fine example of vintage advertising artwork, ready for display.