Instant thought – The background is Dark Earth, not Black. Assuming the art came from a standard position on the side of the nose, this ought to constrain the date considerably, as most Wellingtons were finished with a high demarcation line between the camo uppersurfaces and black undersurfaces, with only a fairly narrow strip on the upperside of the fuselage being camo, and the likely place for nose art being black.
So it would have be from a relatively early Wellington before the position of the demarcations was changed to the above pattern, I’d say before late 1940. I’m not sure when the Air Ministry order for this was, but no doubt someone will have the date…
Nice piece by the way!
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