Adopt an artefact – Sausage Sign that was a mystery

In the run-up to Christmas we have been looking in detail at the 12 Horsham Museum & Art Gallery artefacts that the public can adopt.

You might want to take advantage of this offer as an unusual festive or even birthday present!

The money raised helps fund important projects at the museum, such as the conservation of our collection and the purchase of important objects. You can set the adoption up to give as a present for someone else.

All the details can be found on our Adopt an Object web page.

This time we turn our attention on another unusual shop sign. The jolly sausage sign has been part of the museum’s collection since 1984, when it was discovered in the premise of a shop which was moving to a new location.

At one time there used to be an air of mystery around where this was originally situated but it was quickly tracked down to a butcher’s in Queen Street and a photo in the Museum’s collection confirmed this.

Rumour has it that the shape of the ‘sausage man’ was mistaken at night for a swastika by drunken servicemen during the Second World War and they threw stones at it. As a result it was taken down.