This pop-art and art-deco style printed tin-plate sign was made for the fashion shop set up by the British pop-singer, Sandie Shaw. Shaw is best remembered as the singer of Puppet on a String, the song that won Eurovision in 1967. Sandie famously performed bare-foot, due to her long slender feet and the difficulty of finding suitably comfortable footwear.

Sandie was included, as a song-bird, in John D Green’s famous photo-book, Birds of Britain (1967)

Birds of Britain details many of the famous British women from the Swinging Sixties in lavish photographs.  The photos include Charlotte Rampling (strangely sitting in a fruit bowl), Pattie Boyd, Susannah York, Ingrid Boulting, Julie Christie, Sarah Miles, Jane Asher, Mary Quant, Marianne Faithfull, Jane Barry, Lady Curzon, Jean Shrimpton’s younger sister Chrissie, Hayley and Susan Mills, Lulu, Dusty Springfield and Sandie Shaw. There are singers, dancers, models, actresses, designers, socialites, artists, and various performers and personalities from the decade.

The metal sign was designed by David Fairbrother-Roe and made by Polypops ltd. It’s a classic bit of pop-art Britain and swinging London.

Sandie established a fashion shop and a line fo clothes and shoes for her sort of girl-about-town.

Lovely.

Dimensions: 51.5  x 36.5cm

Condition: Generally good, but some scratches & light wear as to be expected. Screw/nail holes in each corner.