Feathery hand-fans from the latest emails from Fan d’Éventails, Paris.It’s a good thing these and the feathery hats went out of fashion as some of the birds the feathers were from almost went extinct from being hunted by overly eager hunters.

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Celluloid fan with black and green tinted rooster feathers. ca. 1920-1930. Comes with a case from A. Ahrveiler Paris. Image © Fan d’Éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4118-black-and-green-wind-fan-circa-1920-30.html
Blue jay feather hand-fan. Tortoiseshell with jay feather marquetry. Late 19th c. Comes with a box from Faucon. Image © Fan d’Éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4104-blue-jay-feather-fan-late-19th-century.html
Tortoiseshell fan with pink goose feathers. ca. 1900-1910. Image © Fan d’Éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4124-pink-goose-fan-circa-1900-10.html
Hand-fan with white mother-of-pearl sticks and guards and rhea feathers in shades of pink. ca. 1925. Image © Fan d’Éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4106-pink-rhea-feather-fan-circa-1925.html

Ostrich feather fan with tortoiseshell sticks and beautifully carved, engraved and gilded guards, featuring cherubs climbing trees to reach birds. ca. 1890-1900. Image © Fan d’Éventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/feather-fans/4140-climbing-angels-in-the-style-of-henneguy-fan-circa-1890-1900.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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