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1850s
GUSN-53279
FAN (A): Pierced tortoise shell sticks with some gilt; paper leaf with oval medallion lithographed and painted with scene of two women, one man and a dog, in a garden, with purple and gold paper with figures in Elizabethan costume; reverse is purple paper with gold scroll and figure of woman with hat. BOX (B): White, embossed with gold lattice and cartouches.
fans (costume accessories)
accessories
lithography
painting (coating)
paper (fiber product)
piercing
tortoise shell
Elizabethan
Unidentified Paper
Shell
Pierced
Lithography
Painted
Classical Figure
Elizabethean
FAN & BOX
1) Embossed on cover of Box: ""EVENTAIL"". 2) On bottom of Box: ""F. Newton"". 3) On guard stick: ""Newton"".
1942.1119A,B
Unknown
1942.1119AB
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