Four enamelled metal shop signs designed by Sir Edward Lutyens for Cockington

Four enamelled metal shop signs designed by Sir Edward Lutyens for Cockington, Devon, comprising an archer, a blacksmith at his Anvil, a still life of fruit, teapot and vases, and a woman at her loom, each enamelled in colours, with a small scrap album relating to the village unsigned blacksmith 55cm. high Sir Edward Lutyens was requested to plan an extension to the village of Cockington in the 1930s, to include an Inn, shops and house around the village green. Work was interrupted by World War II with only the village inn, originally called The Forge Inn but re-named The Drum Inn. These shop signs were made at the local forge by the blacksmith Bill Bradford to the designs of Lutyens.