Hand fans from the October email of Fan d’Eventails Paris. Perfect for wafting that potpourri scent along.

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Biarritz souvenir fan with a red gauze leaf painted with flowers and birds and embroidered with beads, forming, once the fan is folded, the name of the city Biarritz. Wooden sticks and guards. ca. 1890. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/novelty-hands-fans/4481-biarritz-beads-fan-circa-1890.html
Hand fan with engraved sticks and guards, the paper leaf printed and engraved with allegories of the four seasons and Scandinavian runes, probably from the younger Futhark (a type of runic alphabet in use from the 9th century Viking period). ca. 1730-1740. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/18th-century-fans/4482-mysterious-runes-fan-circa-173040.html

Hand fan with an embroidered and painted silk leaf depicting a scene in which a cat is surprised by the flight of a hot air balloon. Wooden sticks and guards. Late 19th century ish. Maker not known. Image © Fan d’Eventails, Paris. Fair use license. via https://www.fandeventails.fr/en/19th-century-fans/4484-cat-in-the-hot-air-balloon-late-th-century-fan.html

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