Hand-fans to waft spring or fall in, depending on where you are. All of these taken from the September email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris, France. Most of these were made for children, dolls and are otherwise miniature.

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Bone brisé doll fan with an interlaced pink ribbon. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3649-little-gallantry-miniature-fan-or-doll-s-fan-late-19thearly-20th-century.html
Large wooden brisé hand fan. On the reverse of each blade, metal supports are studded to form a sort of domino cabriolet, featuring chromolithographed papers depicting children and flowers. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3631-children-and-flowers-giant-fan-early-20th.html
Hand-fan made for a child, the silk leaf painted and embroidered in the motif of a swan. Horn sticks and guards. ca. 1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3632-elegante-au-cygne-eventail-d-enfant-vers-1900.html
Small brisé hand-fan made for a child with the leaf painted and applied with engraving. Bone sticks and guards. ca. 1900. Henry À la Pensée, maker. Signed on the reverse by Henry À la Pensée, a Paris dealer on rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3645-for-a-child-fan-from-henry-a-la-pensee-circa-1900.html
Miniature brisé hand fan, the leaf painted and varnished with the motif of a fountain and windmill. Bone sticks and guards. Late 19th-early 20th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3647-little-gallantry-miniature-fan-or-doll-s-fan-late-19thearly-20th-century.html
Children’s hand-fan, the satin leaf printed with children’s games. Wooden sticks with the guards being made of gutta percha. Late 19th c. Lauronce, maker. Signed by Lauronce. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3628-gutta-percha-and-childrens-fan-by-lauronce-late-19th-century.html
Hand-fan with wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf printed with little flowers. ca. 1900. Lachelin, maker. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3644-little-flowers-by-lachelin-fan-circa-1900.html
Miniature hand-fan in pierced and painted bone with an interlaced ribbon. 19th c. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3650-little-gallantry-miniature-fan-or-doll-s-fan-late-19thearly-20th-century.html
The children of the Bon Marché palmette paper fan with a printed leaf and an interlaced ribbon. Belle Epoque. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/advertising-fans/3652-the-children-of-the-bon-marche-belle-epoque-fan.html
Flower children hand-fan with a painted and printed silk leaf. Wooden sticks and guards. ca. 1890. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/3643-the-flower-children-fan-circa-1890.html
Miniature brisé bone hand-fan, painted in the style of Wedgwood earthenware. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3630-little-wedgwood-miniature-fan-circa-1900.html
Painted wood brisé doll hand-fan. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/3648-little-gallantry-miniature-fan-or-doll-s-fan-late-19thearly-20th-century.html

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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