A rare late 19th century English Fairground Ice Cream hand cart, the grey painted cart with maroon and blue “Pure Ices’ lettering and lining, the front end hand painted with Italian and Union flags, in black ’T Burnett Coach Builder - Forge Sj Pentre??, between the handles a lidded box, the top surface with four internal compartments with hinged lids and covers, the whole top removable, two large iron wheels with iron stand, a hand painted double sided shaped sign of an ice cream and cone with word ‘Ice’ slotted in the top and four painted and scalloped uprights for canopy, slotted into each corner —57in. (145cm.) long x 31in. (79cm.) wide x 37in. (94cm.) height not including sign or canopy (wear, paint lifting in parts and no liners) - found in a barn in South Wale and always in the same family, by repute hidden away after a cholera outbreak - for history see ‘An ice cream war’ by W Boyd