An unusual tortoiseshell brise fan with panels slotted between each stick to form a leaf - 7in. (17cm.), circa 1870; and another tortoiseshell brise fan (2)

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An unusual tortoiseshell brise fan with panels slotted between each stick to form a leaf - 7in. (17cm.), circa 1870; and another tortoiseshell brise fan (2)
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The design of the first fan was patented No. 165 in 1867 by Jules Serrain, "Eventails avec feuille en meme matiere que les brains, systeme permettant d'articuler une feuille en os, nacre, ivoire, bois, etc., un brin, un pli. Le pli venant s'encastrer dans le brin quand on ferme l'eventail afin de ne pas augmenter l'epaisseur", Maryse Volet, L'Imagination au Service de l'Eventail, Vesenaz 1986, pp.108 and 118

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