A good 19th Century Suffolk Public House sign, 'Customers Came and i Did Trust Them, So i Lost my

A good 19th Century Suffolk Public House sign, 'Customers Came and i Did Trust Them, So i Lost my Liquor and Their Custom, To Lose Them Both it Grieves Me Sore, So I am Resolved to Trust no More, Chalk is Useful say What you Will, Chalk Never Pay the Brewers Bill, So i Will Strive to Mend & Keep a Decent Tap, For Ready Money But no Strap, All you that Bring Tobacco here must Pay For Pipes as Well as Beer', the sign in a deep red ground and faded yellow lettering within a raised frame edge, 63cm x 39cm

Provenance:
The sign was removed in the 1980s from The Wild Man, Sproughton, Suffolk, by the vendor

The rear of the sign with the label "This sign hang in the Bar at the Wild Man Public House Sproughton until 1980 ish, Believed very old