This original Bruce Bairnsfather cartoon is drawn on the back of a Masonic ladies' night programme and dates from 1917.
It is going under the hammer at Tennants in north Yorkshire with an estimate of £50-£60.
The catalogue description reads: " Bruce Bairnsfather - ``Struth fancy bein` able to wear a shoe like that``, signed, original comic pencil sketch, on the back page of a Masonic Programme of Ladies` Night, Friday October 19th 1917, Ex Libris Lodge."
From Wiki: "Captain (Charles) Bruce Bairnsfather (9 July 1887 – 29 September 1959) was a prominent British humorist and cartoonist. His best-known cartoon character is Old Bill. Bill and his pals Bert and Alf featured in Bairnsfather's weekly "Fragments from France" cartoons published weekly in "The Bystander" magazine during the First World War."
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