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1850s
GUSN-53456
Ivory sticks and guards, pierced and inlaid with silver; courting mirror set in one guard; paper leaf with three lithogrpahed medallions with eighteenth century figures inset surrounded by elaborate silver scrolls; reverse has center medallion with 18th Century figures framed with silver scrolls; mother of pearl washer, carved metal ring.
fans (equipment)
accessories
inlay (process)
ivory (tooth component)
lithography
mirrors
paper (fiber product)
piercing
glass (material)
Fan, Hand
Fan, Hand
Unknown
Gift of Miss Frances S. Cheney
1943.188
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