Vintage fans

Bloomingdale's originally opened in 1861 when the Bloomingdale brothers began by selling hoop skirts on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

1870 DUVELLEROY, Fan, black Chantilly Lace and Carved, Pierced and Gilded Mother-of-Pearl. See the link for superb detailed pictures.

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Pleated fan. Black silk net leaf with white cotton needle lace motifs of irises, scrolls and flower sprays applied; lace elements embroidered with silver-colored steel spangles. The sticks are of tortoise shell, piqué, with guards ending in a serpentine form; ebony slips; glass stone at the rivet.

Author Gail Carriger discusses the fan Sophronia is holding on the cover of Waistcoats & Weaponry, how it came to be and were it's from.

Luna Moth fan. Single white silk leaf painted in oil (?) in shades of green forms wings, decorated with brass, plated steel, silver-plated copper sequins green and blue sequins, gilt-silver yarns and net; gilt-silver insert center. Thirteen carved hornbeam (?) sticks painted green, silver and gilt-silver form body. Mother-of-pearl buttons on rivet, brass ring.

Vintage Image - Ladies Pink Fan - The Graphics Fairy

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