A new grouping of beautiful hand-fans, taken from the July email from Fan d’Eventails, Paris.

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Souvenir fan for the Exposition Universelle, held in Paris, France, from April 14 to November 12, 1900. Wooden sticks and guards, the paper leaf being printed with a view of the Porte Monumentale, designed by the architect René Benet. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/4410-1900-paris-exposition.html
Hand fan with mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, the fabric leaf being painted with a view of a bay somewhere in the world. Late 19th c. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4413-3.html
Fan with blond tortoiseshell sticks and guards and a silk leaf painted with a scene depicting a rider in a valley somewhere in Switzerland with a view of snow-capped mountains in the distance. ca. 1890-1900. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4392-a-valley-in-switzerland-fan-circa-1870-1900.html

Hand-fan, the fabric leaf painted with a view of Guernsey. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4409-guernsey-fan-circa-1900.html

Large fan with wooden sticks and guards, the printed paper leaf depicting a view of Lake Geneva and the town of Evian les Bains, part of the poster designed by Gauvain for the Paris-Lyon-Méditerrannée railway. Inscribed on the back: Le lac Léman affiche pour Evian. ca. 1905.  Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4393-le-lac-leman-vu-d-evian-eventail-d-apres-gauvain-vers-1905.html
Souvenir hand fan from the French Embassy in Moscow, Russia. The bistre-colored paper leaf painted with musical attributes, torchères and garlands of flowers. Painted bone sticks and guards. Inscribed on the reverse: EMBASSADE DE FRANCE
MOSCOU MAI 96. Signed on the reverse by the Parisian fan-maker Ernest Kees. With a luxury case from Kees. 1896. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/historic-fans/4406-souvenir-from-the-french-embassy-in-moscow-1896-fan-by-kees.html
Hand fan with wooden sticks and guards, the fabric leaf painted and inscribed Cotes de Normandie. ca. 1900. Image © Fan d’Eventails Paris. Fair use license. https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4398-washerwoman-on-the-normandy-coast-fan-circa-1900.html

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